FEDERAL PRESIDENT SAYS 3-WAY RETURN RESOLVES PROBLEM OF DISPLACED

( Editorial: --> 8880 ) NOVI TRAVNIK, July 20 (Hina) - The three-way return is the only way to make all displaced persons from Bugojno, Rama and Novi Travnik return to their homes, the President of the Croat-Muslim Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina Ejup Ganic said on Monday. Ganic was speaking to Croat displaced persons in Rostovo near Novi Travnik, Central Bosnia. The federal president visited Rostovo with Central Bosna Canton prefect Adnan Terzic and deputy prefect Ivan Saric. About 3,000 Croats were exiled from Rostovo in 1993. Today Ganic encouraged them to return to their homes, saying they would thus make space for Muslims to return to Rama, which would then open the possibility of a larger Croat return to Bugojno, where Croat houses are occupied by Muslims from Rama. The displaced said they could not return because their houses were completely demolished as was the water and power supply infrastructure. They requested Ganic and other federal and cantonal officials to influence the international community which says that the reconstruction of houses would begin only once the displaced return to them. (hina) ha 202116 MET jul 98