MEETING OF COMMISSION FOR RETURN OF REFUGEES TO CENTRAL BH POSTPONED

POSTPONED $ TRAVNIK, Aug 8 (Hina) - A meeting of a commission composed of representatives of the international community and the ministries for refugees of the Central Bosnia Canton and the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina scheduled for today was postponed, the central Bosnia Canton's Welfare and Refugees Minister Vikica Mijic said on Friday. On the basis of a Sarajevo agreement and in line with a decision by representatives of the Canton and international associations, the Commission for the Organization of the Return of Displaced Persons and Refugees of the Central Bosnia Canton was scheduled to meet in Travnik today. The meeting had been organized by the head of UNHCR's seat in Zenica, Jean-Michel Goodsticker. It was expected that the basics of a return-programme concerning about 100,000 refugees and displaced persons (including 70,000 Bosnian Croats) of the Central Bosnia Canton would be accepted. Representatives of the office of the international high representative for BH, OSCE, SFOR, IPTF, ECMM, UNHCR, and the Canton appeared today, but the BH Federation's Minister for Social Welfare, Refugees and Displaced Persons, Rasim Kadic, did not show up. According to Mijic, Kadic's failure to appear at the meeting unsettled the short deadlines from the Sarajevo 5 August agreement on central Bosnia, and postponed the settling of the first and hottest issue in the Central Bosnia Canton. A new meeting had not been announced, she said. 082212 MET aug 97