IZETBEGOVIC'S PROPOSAL HOW TO 'UNBLOCK' PROCESS OF RETURN ( Editorial: --> 1155 )

( Editorial: --> 1155 ) SARAJEVO, Nov 16 (Hina) - The President of Bosnia-Herzegovina's collective Presidency, Alija Izetbegovic, has said that he is willing to help meet demands of the international community for enabling refugees, pre-war tenants, to return to their flats, currently occupied by other refugees, on condition that the procedure of such return may be conducted on the whole of Bosnia. Izetbegovic was quoted by the Sarajevo television on Saturday night as saying that a process of the return of refugees in Bosnia should start with the return of Serbs who fled Croatian areas during the liberating operation of the Croatian army "Storm" in 1995. He said that there was the question how to "unblock" the entire process. According to him, there was a solution as the central Croatian region that used to be held by Serb rebels, had the largest number of vacant houses and flats, and many Serbs from that region were now living in Bosnia. They should return to their homes and in this way, a great number of flats in (Bosnian towns of) Banja Luka, Prijedor, Brcko could become available for exiled Moslems (Bosniaks), Izetbegovic explained adding that those possible Moslem returnees would leave flats to which Bosnian Serbs could come back. I hold that this is the only right solution, Izetbegovic added. (hina) mš 161301 MET nov 97