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OSCE, UNHCR SATISFIED WITH CROATIA'S PLAN TO HELP 16,500 SERBS RETURN

ZAGREB, Feb 23 (Hina) - The OSCE and UNHCR missions in Croatia welcomed a project on the return of 16,500 Serbs to Croatia which the Croatian Government presented on Monday at the Budapest meeting of the Stability Pact for South-East Europe' Democratisation Working Table. The project, worth 55.6 million U.S. dollars, should be carried out in the coming six months. This is a very good project and the OSCE mission greets it, but the Croatian Government must take positive moves in the work of housing commissions, the enforcement of laws and the return of property to resume the process of the return, said a spokesman for the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) mission at Wednesday's regular press conference. Citing examples of the blockade in the return, Peter Palmer mentioned the work of housing commission in the eastern town of Vukovar. Those commissions had pro
ZAGREB, Feb 23 (Hina) - The OSCE and UNHCR missions in Croatia welcomed a project on the return of 16,500 Serbs to Croatia which the Croatian Government presented on Monday at the Budapest meeting of the Stability Pact for South-East Europe' Democratisation Working Table. The project, worth 55.6 million U.S. dollars, should be carried out in the coming six months. This is a very good project and the OSCE mission greets it, but the Croatian Government must take positive moves in the work of housing commissions, the enforcement of laws and the return of property to resume the process of the return, said a spokesman for the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) mission at Wednesday's regular press conference. Citing examples of the blockade in the return, Peter Palmer mentioned the work of housing commission in the eastern town of Vukovar. Those commissions had processed a small number of requests. In addition, Palmer said, they also made decisions on enabling the owners of houses to come back to their homes, but failed to ensure simultaneously the alternative accommodation for temporary tenants, most of whom were Serbs. It is contrary to the Croatian Government's programme of the return, Palmer complained adding that there was potentials for alternative accommodation in that eastern Croatian town. Flats are being allocated but generally not to Serbs, Palmer claimed, adding that such practice is undermining efforts of the current Government. The OSCE spokesman said discriminatory provisions of some laws, still in force in Croatia, had a negative impact on the return process. The laws in question are the act on reconstruction and on areas of special state care, and the OSCE mission has been for some time advocating their annulment, Palmer added. The fact that the Croatian law makes distinction between notions "expelled persons" and "displaced persons", has led to the situation on the ground that assistance for the reconstruction has been almost exclusively granted to the expelled persons, namely Croats, to the detriment of "displaced persons", namely Serbs, Palmer said. The OSCE spokesman voiced confidence that those laws would be very soon changed, as the Government is now discussing amendments to such acts. A spokesman for the UNHCR, Andrej Mahecic, pointed to a statement of Reconstruction Minister Radimir Cacic, that although Croatia was expecting from the international community to allocate $55 million for this project, Croatia would by itself launch it before Zagreb got any money for this purpose. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will be a co-ordinator in that job. (hina) jn ms

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