GENEVA, Jan 16 (Hina) - According to a UNHCR proposal on measures for the solution of the refugee crisis in Bosnia-Herzegovina and other countries in the region, published in Geneva today, the return of refugees and displaced persons
would be carried out in three phases.
GENEVA, Jan 16 (Hina) - According to a UNHCR proposal on measures
for the solution of the refugee crisis in Bosnia-Herzegovina and
other countries in the region, published in Geneva today, the
return of refugees and displaced persons would be carried out in
three phases. #L#
The first stage is to be carried out in winter 1995/1996 and
in that period refugees and displaced persons would be encouraged
to return on an individual basis.
The second stage is to be carried out in spring and summer
1996. This stage would include the reconstruction of residential
buildings and infrastructure. The return of refugees at this stage
is connected with elections that are to he held in Bosnia-
Herzegovina.
The third stage would be carried out late in summer 1996 and
it should include those refugees and displaced persons for whose
return neither stable nor safe conditions have been created.
According to the basic UNHCR document, presented in Geneva
today by Sadako Ogata, 870,000 persons should return to Bosnia-
Herzegovina in 1996. Those 870,000 persons include 500,000
internally displaced (in Bosnia-Herzegovina), 170, 000 refugees
accommodated in other countries of the former Yugoslavia and some
200, 000 persons who have been accepted by other European
countries.
In 1996, 2,770 000 persons in Bosnia-Herzegovina would receive
humanitarian aid from UNHCR.
There are 187, 000 refugees and 180,000 displaced persons in
Croatia, according to UNHCR data. UNHCR expressed readiness to
cooperate with the Transitional Administration in the return of
Croatian displaced persons to eastern Slavonia.
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