CRO VICE PREMIER & OSCE REP DISCUSS RETURN OF REFUGEES

( Editorial: --> 8665 ) ZAGREB, April 22 (Hina) - Croatian Vice-Premier Ljerka Mintas- Hodak held talks with the OSCE high commissioner for national minorities, Max van der Stoel, in Zagreb on Wednesday. The two officials discussed the return of refugees and measures the Croatian Government is undertaking in solving this problem. On Thursday the Government will adopt a proposal on the cancellation of the Law on Temporary Take-Over and Management of Abandoned Property and the Law on the Renting of Flats in the Liberated Areas. The proposal will be sent to the Parliament's House of Representatives for discussion. It was estimated at today's talks that the return of all refugees to their homes depended on the consistent implementation of the Government Programme on Operational Return Procedures, as well as on financial means for reconstruction. Croatia and Germany are currently negotiating the return of Bosnian Croats who because of security reasons do not want to return to the areas of Bosnia-Herzegovina where they do not make a majority. Mintas-Hodak said that as a country which had achieved the most important progress in the process of return, Croatia would present its experience at the forthcoming conference on the return of refugees, to be held on April 28 in Banja Luka. (hina) jn rm/mrb 221728 MET apr 98