CROATIAN SERB REPS. VISIT PLITVICE LAKES, KNIN

PLITVICE LAKES/KNIN, Aug 12 (Hina) - A Croatian Parliament member and the Serb people's council president, Milorad Pupovac, the Serb democratic forum president, Veljko Dzakula and a Serb people's council member, Marko Popovic, on Tuesday toured the municipality of Plitvice Lakes and talked with the mayor, Mile Cancar, and the Croatian government's refugee office's head in the town of Korenica, Ana Cicak. Pupovac and the delegation were informed of difficulties that occurred in reconstruction, infrastructure construction and of unemployment problems. At the talks it was said that "there are no problems in the return of Serbs who have government documents for the plan for (their) return." Pupovac voiced satisfaction with the care for the Serb community in this area in central Croatia. After that, Pupovac visited Knin and met its mayor Milivoj Tomas. Pupovac told him that Serb residents of the area would like that their community be organised so that town authorities could have a partner in efforts to eliminate joint problems. We see that there is readiness to improve the state of affairs in Knin and to create a more tolerable and promising situation for all people who live here, including members of the Serb community, Pupovac said. Tomas said that in the past three months about 850 Serbs had come back to the Knin area, and only about 60 of them returned in an organised manner, in line with documents of the Croatian Government. (hina) mš 122134 MET aug 97