DUE TO UNCONTROLLED RETURN OF SERBS INCIDENTS INCREASE IN DRVAR

DRVAR, June 30 (Hina) - President of the Federation of Bosnia- Herzegovina, Ivo Andric Luzanski, held talks in Drvar (northwest Bosnia) with representatives of the Herzeg-Bosnian Canton, representatives of the Serb people, headed by the municipal head Mile Marceta, and Croat people headed by deputy municipal head Ilija Sljivic, about the work of the executive and legislative authorities and the return of Serbs in the Drvar municipality. Present at the meeting were officials of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), UNHCR, Office of the High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina and members of the European Community Monitoring Mission. Marceta and Sljivic were given the deadline by July 20 to harmonise a draft municipal budget and forward it to the municipal council at the next session, Luzanski said. Marceta said 5.018 Serbs have returned to Drvar so far. As only 50 have been registered at the police administration, the Croat representatives expressed dissatisfaction with the uncontrollable return of Serbs. The political and security situation in the municipality was described as satisfactory. Luzanski stressed the situation must be supervised "because of the uncontrolled return of Serbs, so incidents which are becoming more frequent, could be avoided". He asked support of the international community in the implementation of Annex 7 of the Dayton peace accords, pertaining to the two-way return of refugees and displaced persons to the Bosnian Federation and Bosnian Serb republic of Republika Srpska. (hina) lml