VUKOVAR RECONSTRUCTION VUKOVAR, June 17 (Hina) - The Sabor's labour, social policy and public health committee on Saturday endorsed a bill on the reconstruction of the war-ravaged eastern Croatian town of Vukovar. Vukovar is the town
where this committee of the House of Representatives held its first outside Zagreb. Committee members expressed hope that the Croatian national parliament would pass this act very soon so that it could become effective in the near future. On behalf of the Government which drafted the act, Deputy Minister of Public Works, Reconstruction and Construction, Veljko Curlina expounded the draft act. During a debate on this document, the committee head, Snjezana Biga Friganovic described th bill as the Government's contribution to concrete assistance to the reconstruction of Vukovar, its economic recovery, and the process of return. Biga Friganovic said that in the previous period there had bee
VUKOVAR, June 17 (Hina) - The Sabor's labour, social policy and
public health committee on Saturday endorsed a bill on the
reconstruction of the war-ravaged eastern Croatian town of
Vukovar.
Vukovar is the town where this committee of the House of
Representatives held its first outside Zagreb.
Committee members expressed hope that the Croatian national
parliament would pass this act very soon so that it could become
effective in the near future.
On behalf of the Government which drafted the act, Deputy Minister
of Public Works, Reconstruction and Construction, Veljko Curlina
expounded the draft act.
During a debate on this document, the committee head, Snjezana Biga
Friganovic described th bill as the Government's contribution to
concrete assistance to the reconstruction of Vukovar, its economic
recovery, and the process of return.
Biga Friganovic said that in the previous period there had been a
wrong approach to Vukovar and its problems, since priority had been
given to the reconstruction of family houses and flats while not
enough emphasis had been given to the economic recovery and job
creation.
"This is an opportunity to correct the situation and to offer
Vukovar citizens a chance to earn for their existence rather than
living on welfare," she added
A leader of returnees' society, Josip Kompanovic, who attended the
session, warned that some Vukovarans were not willing to come back
to their hometown as war criminals had not yet been processed at the
right manner.
Kompanovic urged the Government to attach particular importance to
this problem, and Biga Friganovic agreed with him adding that it was
the interest of the Government and all citizens to see fair and
expeditious trials of war crimes suspects.
Another returnee leader, Dragutin Glasnovic, thanked the committee
for having held the session in Vukovar. He warned that Vukovar was
almost "a dead town" and Vukovarans were "fed up with those who come
to the town with many nice words but who forget the town as soon as
they leave it."
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