RETURN PLAN TO BRING RECONSTRUCTION AID FOR CROATIA

( Editorial: --> 4516 ) ZAGREB, June 29 (Hina) - Chairwoman of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Leni Fischer on Monday held talks with Croatian Vice-Premier and European integration Minister Ljerka Mintas-Hodak. The idea developed by the Croatian government and Parliament on expediting the process of return of refugees and displaced persons, will help Croatia receive international aid at the donors' conference, Fischer told a news conference after the talks. She stressed she had not yet examined the details of the plan, but she held that it was absolutely crucial to combine the plan of return, the procedure for the return of persons who left Croatia and the reconstruction plan. Fischer is on a four-day visit to Croatia at the invitation of Parliament President Vlatko Pavletic. Mintas Hodak presented Fischer with the return plan and everything Croatia did in the past period on the completion of the peaceful reintegration, and on the return process. Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Foreign Minister Mate Granic will also receive Fischer later in the day. (hina) lml as 291935 MET jun 98