BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3175 HINA ZAGREB, FEBRUARY 14

HR-un BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3175 HINA ZAGREB, FEBRUARY 14 UN HUMAN RIGHTS SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR VISITS PAKRAC AND DARUVARPAKRAC/DARUVAR, Feb 14 (Hina) - The UN Human Rights Commission's Special Rapporteur, Jiri Dienstbier, toured two Croatian towns - Pakrac and Daruvar (about 100 km east of Zagreb)- on Saturday. In Pakrac, the UN representative held talks with the town's mayor, Damir Spancic, and the commander of the local police, Nikola Ivkanec, on the two-way return and possibilities of speeding up the process of the reconstruction of this war-ravaged area. Pakrac authorities told Dienstbier that from 1995 to date, about 700 Serbs had returned from Yugoslavia or the Croatian Danube river area to this western Slavonian town. Last year, more than 300 Serbs came back. They said the Croatian Government had made the greatest efforts to renovate the town. Besides, the European Union also financed two projects. One of them covered the construction of 22 flats for Bosnian Croats wh