HEAD OF BUGOJNO MUNICIPALITY PROMISES MORE PROTECTION FOR CROATS

VITEZ, Oct 3 (Hina) - Croatian families who want to return to Bugojno (central Bosnia, under Muslim control) will in the future submit their applications to the International Police Task Force and not to local authorities in Bugojno, UNHCR representative Joaquin Gonzalez Aleman told a press conference in Vitez on Thursday. The head of the Bugojno Municipality Dzevad Mlaco firmly promised that local authorities would provide political and security conditions for the implementation of the Dayton pilot- project for the return of 200 Croat families to Bugojno to continue, Aleman said. The mixed municipal commission for the implementation of the pilot-project stopped working yesterday due to lack of help from local authorities in protecting the returnees and their property, as a result of which 22 Croat families moved out again. Spokesman for IFOR's multi-national division for sector south- west Lieutenant Colonel Paul Brook said that from 2 p.m. of today all flights of Bosnian Army helicopters were banned. Brook explained that this was due to several violations of IFOR's flight permissions. Aleman also said that UNHCR was participating in the reparation of 200 family houses in the Central Bosnian Canton and 12 hospitals and local clinics in the Zenica-Doboj Canton. The reparation of hospitals and clinics would provide basic conditions for health care of 300,000 inhabitants of the Zenica- Doboj Canton, Aleman concluded. (hina) ha jn 031918 MET oct 96