ZAGREB, June 24 (Hina) - The Croatian parliament's House of Representatives on Thursday continued its 41st session with a debate on amendments to the Law on the Status of Displaced Persons and Refugees. According to the motioned
amendments, the number of the displaced should be reduced because status will be annulled to persons who have been provided with accommodation, either through budgetary funds or other provisions. It has also been suggested that the displaced person status be valid three months at the longest after returning to pre-war homes. The amendments would also revoke a provision which stipulated the cessation of forced evictions of displaced persons from houses owned by other parties in which the displaced were accommodated, on legal basis, until conditions for their return to pre-war homes had been ensured or alternate accommodation found. The amendments should also regulate the legal posit
ZAGREB, June 24 (Hina) - The Croatian parliament's House of
Representatives on Thursday continued its 41st session with a
debate on amendments to the Law on the Status of Displaced Persons
and Refugees.
According to the motioned amendments, the number of the displaced
should be reduced because status will be annulled to persons who
have been provided with accommodation, either through budgetary
funds or other provisions.
It has also been suggested that the displaced person status be valid
three months at the longest after returning to pre-war homes.
The amendments would also revoke a provision which stipulated the
cessation of forced evictions of displaced persons from houses
owned by other parties in which the displaced were accommodated, on
legal basis, until conditions for their return to pre-war homes had
been ensured or alternate accommodation found.
The amendments should also regulate the legal position of persons
accused of war crimes under the Amnesty Law. These persons would not
be able to exercise the rights from the law, while persons who have
been indicted will not be able to do so until the final verdict.
According to Assistant Reconstruction, Development, and
Immigration Minister Lovre Pejkovic, another 40,000 displaced
persons should return to eastern Croatia, and another 10,000 to
territories liberated in the Flash and Storm military operations.
Croatia is currently accommodating 28,000 refugees from Bosnia-
Herzegovina, while some 3,000 have come to Croatia last year and up
to the onset of the Kosovo conflict.
Pejkovic told the Lower House the repatriation of persons who had
been sent to Croatia from Kosovo had begun on Wednesday.
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