BELI MANASTIR LEADERSHIP DISCUSS TWO-WAY RETURN

( Editorial: --> 7647 ) BELI MANASTIR, March 6 (Hina) - The leadership of the eastern Croatian town of Beli Manastir decided after a session Friday that bodies of authority should evict persons using flats without valid tenants' rights. This measure will not affect persons protected through the Zagreb- Erdut Agreement of the tripartite agreement signed by the Croatian government, UN Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia (UNTAES) and UN High Commission for refugees (UNHCR). President of the Housing Commission, Josip Kompanovic, said that from the 916 flats and family houses examined by 1 March in Beli Manastir, 505 houses and 92 flats were abandoned. Kompanovic added that 110 families who had moved to Beli Manastir during the war wanted to sell their property in the town they lived in before the war, 115 families decided to return to their previous homes and 73 wanted to remain in the Croatian Danubian area. (hina) lm mm 061425 MET mar 98