REPS OF BUGOJNO AND PROZOR-RAMA DISCUSS RETURN OF REFUGEES

BUGOJNO, Feb 6 (Hina) - The inter-municipal commission of Bugojno and Prozor-Rama (central Bosnia) held a session in Bugojno on Friday to discuss the implementation of the memorandum of understanding concerning the return of refugees to these two federal municipalities. The memorandum was signed by the authorities of two municipalities in Bugojno on August 1, last year, through the mediation of a German diplomat, Christian Schwartz Schilling. Hans Schumacher, a Deputy High Representative for Bosnia- Herzegovina, attended Friday's session to introduce the High Representative's special envoy for the Bugojno and Prozor-Rama municipalities, Urlich Bucher. Bucher's task is to help implement the Dayton peace accords in the two municipalities. At the meeting the parties agreed that mayors of Prozor-Rama and Bugojno, Dragan Meter and Dzevad Mlaco respectively, along with Bucher, should made reports on the number of Moslem and Croat returnees to the two municipalities. Schumacher stressed that the municipality of Bugojno should find adequate facilities for the school building for Croat children who are now attending classes in the house of the parish priest. This German diplomat insisted on the return of offices and workshops another business premises to their owners Croats in Bugojno. He added that the Office of the High Representative (OHR) could do nothing else as regards reports of the federal ombudsmen and the Organisation for the Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on the illegal appropriation of the land owned by Croats where an Islamic centre is planned to be built by Bugojno municipal council and the Bugojno authorities' rejection to discontinue the construction. The OHR only recommended the discontinuation of the construction of the centre. The public attorney of Central Bosnian Canton and Federal Premier Edhem Bicakcic are authorised to take necessary measures in this case, Schumacher explained. (hina) ms