GROUP OF DISPLACED CROATS TO RETURN TO MARINCI NEXT WEEK

ILOK, Aug 25 (Hina) - Displaced Croats are next week to begin returning to Marinci, a village in the Vukovar-Srijem County under the UN Transitional Administration, and the first displaced persons are to begin returning to their reconstructed homes in Vukovar in the second half of October, head of the county's Regional Office fir Displaced Persons and Refugees, Ante Drmic, said in Ilok on Monday. #L# He told reporters that a large group of displaced persons is to return to some 30 houses in Marinci next week which had not been damaged and to several houses whose reconstruction is nearing an end. He added that the Croatian government was reconstructing 16 blocks of flats in Vukovar, and the international community ten. So far, about 50 displaced families had returned to a part of the Vukovar-Srijem County under the organisation of UNTAES, he said, adding that the families were returning mostly based on the reunion of families or into empty houses, which was rarer. A lot more Serbs had returned to other parts of Croatia, and a group of 266 persons from whole of the Croatian Danube river region is to return to their homes on 27 August, out of which about 130 were from the Vukovar-Srijem County, Drmic said. He added that houses and war damage were being registered in the area under the UN Transitional Administration. Houses in 24 villages have been registered so far. Residents' meetings were also being held at which they are informed about the possibilities of two-way return. So far, such meetings had been held in about 30 villages, Drmic aid. (hina) lm jn 251904 MET aug 97