ZAGREB, Aug 28 (Hina) - Croatian vice-premier and Croatian representative at the UNTAES Ivica Kostovic on Wednesday said that displaced persons from the village of Lipovac in the Croatian Danubian area could be expected to start
returning to their homes in September.
ZAGREB, Aug 28 (Hina) - Croatian vice-premier and Croatian
representative at the UNTAES Ivica Kostovic on Wednesday said that
displaced persons from the village of Lipovac in the Croatian
Danubian area could be expected to start returning to their homes
in September. #L#
After Wednesday's regular session of the Coordination for the
peaceful reintegration of eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western
Srijem, Kostovic said that the meeting had focused on the
reintegration process so far and on the return to the Croatian
Danubian area.
He announced that a meeting is to take place on Thursday at
which Croatian authority representatives are to inform local Serb
representatives about the rights they were guaranteed by the
Croatian government.
The Coordination had estimated that Croatian companies were
entering the Croatian Danubian area at too slow a rate and it had
discussed measures for the speeding up of the process, Kostovic
said, adding that whole villages from the area had expressed their
wish that school was taught under the Croatian curriculum.
Asked when displaced persons would begin to return to Bilje
and other places in the Croatian Danubian area, Kostovic said
"General Klein and the Croatian government have a plan for the
return to Bilje. It is coordinated with the UNHCR programme. The
formula is fairly simple: Croatians are to return, native Serbs are
to remain and a different solution is to be found for the others."
He reiterated the Croatian government's "firm stance" that the
UNTAES mandate did not have to be extended for more than three
months.
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