$ ON ZAGREB, Aug 19 (Hina) - Croatian Vice-Premier Ivica Kostovic on Monday held talks with a delegation of the Croatian Displaced Persons' Union (ZPH) headed by its president Mato Simic. Present at the talks were also Agriculture
Minister Matej Jankovic, head of the government Office for Refugees and Displaced Persons Damir Zoric and Foreign Minister Mate Granic.
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ZAGREB, Aug 19 (Hina) - Croatian Vice-Premier Ivica Kostovic on
Monday held talks with a delegation of the Croatian Displaced
Persons' Union (ZPH) headed by its president Mato Simic.
Present at the talks were also Agriculture Minister Matej
Jankovic, head of the government Office for Refugees and Displaced
Persons Damir Zoric and Foreign Minister Mate Granic. #L#
Granic confirmed Kostovic's statement that talks on the
normalization of relations between Croatia and Yugoslavia were
crucial for the reintegration of the Croatian Danubian area, adding
that mutual recognition and establishment of diplomatic relations
would be the biggest incentive to the process of peaceful
reintegration.
Simic said that after their meeting with UN Transitional
Administrator Jacques Klein, the ZPH had given up the action of
peaceful return to Bilje and expressed dissatisfaction with the
process of return to the Danubian area so far.
Asking the ZPH delegation for patience and cooperation,
Kostovic recalled good overall results.
He announced that Croatian government experts would visit some
places in Baranja and that people would most probably begin
returning to those places in September.
Kostovic recalled that the preparation for elections was the
task of a joint implementation committee and announced the visit of
UN experts in September.
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