ZAGREB, Mar 13 (Hina) - U.N.'s High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata will be visiting Croatia on March 16 and 17 as part of her tour of south-east European countries, a UNHCR spokesman said in Zagreb on Monday. Ogata is to meet
Croatian President Stipe Mesic, Prime Minister Ivica Racan, Foreign Minister Tonino Picula, and the Minister of Public Works, Reconstruction and Construction, Radimir Cacic, spokesman Andrej Mahecic said. "On March 16, Ogata will visit the villages in western Slavonia which could be included in a Croatian project of refugee return within the Stability Pact for South-East Europe," Mahecic said. At a recent conference on the Stability Pact in Budapest, Croatia offered for financing a US$55-million-worth project for the return of 16,500 Croatian Serb refugees. Ogata is also expected to visit the refugee centre of Lipovljani in western Slavonia, where mostly Bosnian Croat refugees are accommodat
ZAGREB, Mar 13 (Hina) - U.N.'s High Commissioner for Refugees
Sadako Ogata will be visiting Croatia on March 16 and 17 as part of
her tour of south-east European countries, a UNHCR spokesman said
in Zagreb on Monday.
Ogata is to meet Croatian President Stipe Mesic, Prime Minister
Ivica Racan, Foreign Minister Tonino Picula, and the Minister of
Public Works, Reconstruction and Construction, Radimir Cacic,
spokesman Andrej Mahecic said.
"On March 16, Ogata will visit the villages in western Slavonia
which could be included in a Croatian project of refugee return
within the Stability Pact for South-East Europe," Mahecic said.
At a recent conference on the Stability Pact in Budapest, Croatia
offered for financing a US$55-million-worth project for the return
of 16,500 Croatian Serb refugees.
Ogata is also expected to visit the refugee centre of Lipovljani in
western Slavonia, where mostly Bosnian Croat refugees are
accommodated. She is also to visit Banja Luka, Sarajevo, Belgrade,
Podgorica, Pristina, Skoplje, and Tirana.
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