MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE RETURN TO VUKOVAR-SIRMIUM COUNTY

VINKOVCI, Oct 13 (Hina) - According to figures by the Vinkovci- based regional office for the displaced and refugees, 109 people have returned to Vukovar-Sirmium County areas under the control of UN Transitional Administration (UNTAES), and at least the same number of people have come back on their own. The office head, Ante Drmic, said on Monday that most of them had returned to Ilok and others had come back to Petrovci, Tordinci, Vukovar, Sotin, Sarengrad, Bapska, Lovas, Brsadin, Tompojevci, Cakovci and Tovarnik. Drmic added that 269 returnees had been registered in villages of the Sirmium triangle, completely reintegrated last November and considerably reconstructed by now. Pre-war tenants of 72 flats in the 'Dunav I' high-rise in Vukovar, which is being renovated by the help of the European Union, will move in October 27. This would be the first residential building to be renovated in Dubrovnik, Drmic said. He said the displaced would visit graveyards, in an organised manner, in 19 UNTAES-controlled villages and towns in Vukovar-Sirmium County, on All Saints' Day (November 1). He added that UNTAES did not guarantee security of cemeteries in Tovarnik, Ilaca, Sotin, Lovas, Opatovac, Bapska, Orolik, Berk, and that it was not likely these graveyards would be visited. Drmic expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that UNTAES had not searched these cemeteries for mines. (hina) jn mš 131914 MET oct 97