ZAGREB, 7 June (Hina) - The Croatian Reconstruction and Development Minister Jure Radic and U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Elizabeth Rehn met in Zagreb to discuss the return and protection of Croat refugees and Croatian Serb
returnees, a statement from the Reconstruction and Development Ministry said Saturday.
ZAGREB, 7 June (Hina) - The Croatian Reconstruction and Development
Minister Jure Radic and U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights
Elizabeth Rehn met in Zagreb to discuss the return and protection of
Croat refugees and Croatian Serb returnees, a statement from the
Reconstruction and Development Ministry said Saturday. #L#
Mrs Rehn was specially interested in the forms of the two-way
return.
More than 14,000 Serbs have already spontaneously returned to their
homes in other parts in Croatia while the return of Croat refugees to
the Croatian Danubian area could not start until now, Radic said.
According to an agreement signed between the Croatian government,
U.N. Transitional Administration in Eastern Slavonia (UNTAES) and U.N.
High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), the return should be organised so
that everyone could be guaranteed full security.
Croatia was dissatisfied with the fact that the international
community was only verbally supporting the acceleration of the return,
without providing any concrete material help for the return programs,
Radic said.
The talks between Radic and Rehn were also attended by the head of
the U.N. mission in Croatia, Roman Wieruszewski, the head of the Office
in Croatia, Namadi Diakite, Rehn's aides Bjorn Teir and Jari Nakhuri,
Radic's aide Stjepan Sterc and Reconstruction and Development Ministry's
spokesman Vladimir Loncarevic.
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