KOSTOVIC, JAMBOR DISCUSS RETURN OF DISPLACED PERSONS TO CROATIAN D

D $ ANUBIAN AREA ZAGREB, Jan 22 (Hina) - Croatian Vice Premier Ivica Kostovic today held talks with the head of the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) mission in Croatia, Pierre Jambor, on the return of displaced persons to the Croatian Danubian area. #L# The Croatian Vice Premier said that the return of displaced persons to the Croatian Danubian area would be conducted by a commission including representatives from UNHCR, Croatian Government Office for Displaced Persons and Refugees and Transitional Administration as well as local Serb representatives. The Croatian side proposed that the whole process start with the return of those Croats whose houses did not have new occupants and that the displaced return to those places which could be reconstructed quickly. The most important precondition for the return of the displaced was safety, Kostovic said. Croatian government representatives in the Transitional Administration had merely advisory and not executive role, Kostovic said, adding that the main administrator had the executive role. Jambor said that the UNHCR would provide help to those people who have the right to return as well as to those who have the right to stay. Kostovic and Jambor also discussed the return of Bosnian refugees. The Croatian Office for Displaced Persons and Refugees would try and slow down their return so that the establishment of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina would not be hampered by a too sudden return of refugees, Kostovic said. Today's talks between Vice Premier Kostovic and the head of the UNHCR mission in Croatia, Pierre Jambor, were also attended by the new UNHCR representative for former Yugoslavia, Jessen Petersen. (hina) rm jn 222256 MET jan 96