VUKOVAR, Nov 10 (Hina) - During his visit to the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar, a representative of Serbia's Government accused Zagreb of failing to meet its obligations it assumed for the facilitating the return of Serb refugees.
Minister Vojislav Vukcevic, in charge of the liaison with ethnic Serbs outside Serbia, on Friday told a news conference in Vukovar that the international community and Yugoslav authorities would lie to do all they could to help Serb refugees come back to their homes in Croatia. "But, unfortunately Croatia does not make the return possible in a manner of which it is speaking and to which it has committed itself," Vukcevic claimed. According to him, the return of Serbs to Croatia is encumbered by too many rules and regulation in relation to the return, and for him, a particular problem lies in the fact that it is impossible to have an insight into lists of suspects in the armed rebe
VUKOVAR, Nov 10 (Hina) - During his visit to the eastern Croatian
town of Vukovar, a representative of Serbia's Government accused
Zagreb of failing to meet its obligations it assumed for the
facilitating the return of Serb refugees.
Minister Vojislav Vukcevic, in charge of the liaison with ethnic
Serbs outside Serbia, on Friday told a news conference in Vukovar
that the international community and Yugoslav authorities would
lie to do all they could to help Serb refugees come back to their
homes in Croatia.
"But, unfortunately Croatia does not make the return possible in a
manner of which it is speaking and to which it has committed
itself," Vukcevic claimed.
According to him, the return of Serbs to Croatia is encumbered by
too many rules and regulation in relation to the return, and for
him, a particular problem lies in the fact that it is impossible to
have an insight into lists of suspects in the armed rebellion
against Croatia or even in the lists war crimes suspects.
The issuance against Serbs who have remained in Croatia or have
returned in the recent period has had negative impact on those who
would like to return, Minister Vukcevic added.
He told reporters that there were about 700,000 Serbs refugees who
found shelter in Yugoslavia and of them, some 300,000 were Croatian
Serb refugees.
Vukcevic said the new authorities in Yugoslavia would soon allow
the dual citizenship for Serbs who live outside that country.
Prior to the Vukovar news conference this Serbian minister held a
meeting with representatives of the Serb minority in the Croatian
Danube River Area - Vojislav Stanimirovic and Milos Vojnovic.
According to Stanimirovic, a leader of the Independent Democratic
Serb Party (SDSS) and MP in the Croatian parliament, their talks
with Vukcevic revolved around the improvement of ties between
Serbia and Serbs who live in other countries in the area of the
former Yugoslavia as well as around the situation in the region.
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