ZAGREB, Sept 27 (Hina) - The return of property to its rightful owners is crucial for the return of refugees, which is why the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to Croatia expects the Croatian
Government to enforce concrete measures, especially in cases when the users of other people's property have their own housing, OSCE spokesman Alessandro Fracassetti, said in Zagreb Wednesday. There are 88 such cases and the Government has been informed about them in August, he said. The cases are involve persons living in other people's flats, although they own their own flats somewhere else and in case of evictions these people would not be left out in the streets. Such cases are known in all municipalities in which they occur, but mostly involve persons with good connections and who are protected by local authorities, Fracassettii asserted, adding that besides these cases which are know
ZAGREB, Sept 27 (Hina) - The return of property to its rightful
owners is crucial for the return of refugees, which is why the
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission
to Croatia expects the Croatian Government to enforce concrete
measures, especially in cases when the users of other people's
property have their own housing, OSCE spokesman Alessandro
Fracassetti, said in Zagreb Wednesday.
There are 88 such cases and the Government has been informed about
them in August, he said.
The cases are involve persons living in other people's flats,
although they own their own flats somewhere else and in case of
evictions these people would not be left out in the streets.
Such cases are known in all municipalities in which they occur, but
mostly involve persons with good connections and who are protected
by local authorities, Fracassettii asserted, adding that besides
these cases which are known about, there were probably much more
less known cases.
The OSCE advocates for the existing regulations on the restitution
of property be moulded into a law.
The issue of the loss of tenants' rights must also be resolved
efficiently in the entire country, and the Mission holds that the
Government should adopt amendments to those still discriminating
laws, such as the new reconstruction law which, unfortunately,
again restores various categories of receivers of assistance, he
stressed.
Spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Mission
to Croatia, Andrej Mahecic, spoke about the same subject in the same
manner, adding that at least 20 per cent of unsolved property
restitution cases involved people with one or two other flats.
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