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SARAJEVO, 6 Jan (Hina) - The U.S. government has granted US $29
million for the financing of return and accommodation of refugees
in Bosnia-Herzegovina, UNHCR spokesman Chris Janowski told
reporters in Sarajevo Tuesday.
The 29 million make one third of the money UNHCR requested from the
international community, with the aim of implementing the return
plan in 1998.
The plan is to be implemented primarily through the financing of
'open town' projects, which include considerable financial
assistance to municipalities willing to allow a more mass return of
members of minority ethnic groups.
The whole project for the area of former Yugoslavia will cost US
$187 million, of which 87 million will go to Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Janowski also expressed hope that 1998 would see a more mass return
of refugees to Republika Srpska.
So far, only symbolic results have been achieved in that part of
Bosnia-Herzegovina, despite verbal assurances from Biljana
Plavsic, he said.
Between 35,000 and 45,000 Croatian Serb refugees are still in
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Janowski estimated.
The Serb refugees are accommodated in the wider Banja Luka area, in
other people's houses, and that is an additional problem in the
process of return, Janowski said.
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