$ HELD GENEVA, Jan 16 (Hina) - Aide to Croatian Foreign Minister, Ivan Simonovic, demanded at today's meeting of the Working Group for Humanitarian Issues of the International Conference on Former Yugoslavia in Geneva that a
conference on the reconstruction of Croatia be held.
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GENEVA, Jan 16 (Hina) - Aide to Croatian Foreign Minister, Ivan
Simonovic, demanded at today's meeting of the Working Group for
Humanitarian Issues of the International Conference on Former
Yugoslavia in Geneva that a conference on the reconstruction of
Croatia be held. #L#
The conference should focus on international assistance in the
reconstruction and development of the recently liberated Croatian
areas as well as on the coordination of the return of refugees and
displaced persons.
The request was stressed shortly after the adoption of the
U.N. Security Council Resolution on Eastern Slavonia which in one
of its paragraphs also provides for international financial
assistance to Croatia during the process of reconstruction and
economic recovery of war-damaged areas.
Croatia's request had been supported by the head of the UNTAES
mission in eastern Slavonia, Jacques Klein, Simonovic said.
The request was also supported by the U.S. delegation during a
meeting with the Croatian delegation in Geneva today.
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