GRANIC RECEIVES DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVES TO DISCUSS RETURN PLAN

( Editorial: --> 3764 ) ZAGREB, June 25 (Hina) - Foreign Minister Mate Granic received Zagreb-based representatives of the international community on Thursday to inform them about the Croatian Government's Programme for the Return and Accommodation of Refugees and Displaced Persons. Granic received ambassadors, charge d'affaires and other diplomatic representatives of the European Union Troika (Luxembourg, the United Kingdom and Austria), the European Commission, the United States, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Granic told them about his successful meetings with German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel and British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook earlier this week and their support for the Programme, a Foreign Ministry statement said. Minster Granic also clarified certain misunderstandings regarding the format in which the Government has presented the Return Programme to the Croatian National Parliament for debate. He emphasised that the Programme, which has been drafted in cooperation with the UNHCR and the international community, will be debated on Friday as a separate document. Parliament has also received the Government's paper titled "The Refugee Crisis - Roots and Consequences", explaining the historic reasons for the crisis and the documents that accompany the Return Programme, the statement said. (Hina) mro jn /mbr 252126 MET jun 98