ZAGREB, Oct 3 (Hina) - The reconstruction of houses and other buildings damaged in the 1990s war for the period 2000-1 is over, with works completed on more than 5,000 houses. This has enabled around 15,000 people to return to their
pre-war homes. The 2000-1 reconstruction programme included requests submitted by 15 October 1997, Assistant Reconstruction Minister Ljudevit Herceg said on Wednesday. He announced that the ministry was launching, in line with a government decision, a new reconstruction programme for the year 2001-2 covering requests submitted by 1 May this year. Around 4,500 houses and 600 housing units are expected to be rebuilt by the end of summer next year. Under a government decision, reconstruction in Croatia should wrap up by the end of 2002 or early 2003. The final deadline for filing reconstruction requests is the end of this year, said the reconstruction minister's adviser on economy, Marko Brajko. Re
ZAGREB, Oct 3 (Hina) - The reconstruction of houses and other
buildings damaged in the 1990s war for the period 2000-1 is over,
with works completed on more than 5,000 houses. This has enabled
around 15,000 people to return to their pre-war homes.
The 2000-1 reconstruction programme included requests submitted by
15 October 1997, Assistant Reconstruction Minister Ljudevit Herceg
said on Wednesday.
He announced that the ministry was launching, in line with a
government decision, a new reconstruction programme for the year
2001-2 covering requests submitted by 1 May this year. Around 4,500
houses and 600 housing units are expected to be rebuilt by the end of
summer next year.
Under a government decision, reconstruction in Croatia should wrap
up by the end of 2002 or early 2003.
The final deadline for filing reconstruction requests is the end of
this year, said the reconstruction minister's adviser on economy,
Marko Brajko.
Reconstruction Minister Radimir Cacic said today the government
was resolute in respecting this deadline and that there would be no
extension.
This is why the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in
cooperation with the reconstruction ministry, has launched a
television campaign in Bosnia and Yugoslavia urging all Croatian
refugees currently living there to file requests for the
reconstruction of pre-war homes in Croatia by the end of 2001.
To date, those refugees have submitted 20,000 such requests, Brajko
said, adding he expected another 5,000 by year's end. Funds for the
reconstruction will be taken from the 2003 state budget, but
considerable assistance is expected from the Council of Europe as
well, he added.
Assistant Reconstruction Minister Herceg said the ministry was
also dealing with the return of Bosnian refugees temporarily
accommodated in Croatian refugees' abandoned houses, by allocating
money for the purchase of construction material for the renovation
of their pre-war homes in Bosnia. There are around 50 such families
wishing to return to the Posavina region in northern Bosnia.
A little over 200 of 339 schools damaged or demolished in the
Serbian aggression have been renovated. Four have recently been
opened. About a dozen churches are also being rebuilt, as is the
infrastructure in all 13 war-affected Croatian counties.
(hina) ha