107 FAMILIES HAVE RETURNED TO VUKOVAR

( Editorial: --> 2807 ) VUKOVAR, 18 Feb (Hina) - Vukovar mayor Vladimir Stengl said at a media conference on Wednesday that to date there has been an organised return of 235 people to Vukovar, that is 107 families. They have a returnee status but apart from them about 80 people have returned to the town who have not yet arranged their returnee status. The Vukovar mayor says that a reason for the "neither small nor big" number of returnees to Vukovar is that it is an inappropriate season for returning. With the coming of spring the number of Vukovar returnees will increase, said Stengl. He assessed that the residential area in Vukovar is being usurped, with many examples of families living in their own apartments while leasing usurped houses or using them for other means such as opening taverns, said the mayor. He said that it bothers him that international monitors only see the conduct of Croatian returnees. Current occupiers of residential units are complaining about so called harassment and provocation, but people in general come to see their houses and do not even ask to enter, but only look from the street, said Stengl. (hina) mm mrb 181352 MET feb 98