DISPLACED CONTINUE TO BLOCK PINIJA HOTEL

ZADAR, June 7 (Hina) - About 270 displaced persons accommodated in Pinija Hotel in Petrcani near Zadar, southern Croatia, are still waiting for an answer from competent persons as to their fate after the hotel has been denying them meals since Monday. A group continues to block access to the hotel, not allowing workers to go on with reconstruction until, they say, a solution is found for them. The head of Zadar's regional office for displaced persons, Sandra Kaurlotto, over the past two days organised the delivery of dried food, and promised cooked food. The displaced at the Pinija were visited this morning by the municipal heads of Jasenica and Posedarje, Martin Baricevic and Zarko Zurak, who urged the government to ensure help fast. Social Democratic Party MP Romano Mestrovic also talked to the displaced, while the head of the government's Office for Displaced Persons, Lovre Pejkovic, according to the displaced, said that not one displaced would be thrown on the street. According to Office for Displaced Persons data, there are 36 families from eastern Croatia's Danube River Region among the displaced at Pinija, and eight families on whose houses reconstruction has not begun. There are also 51 families whose houses have been completely renovated and which should move out of the hotel. They say they will not do so because the reconstructed houses have no water. (hina) ha jn