CONTRACT ON DELIVERY OF EQUIPMENT FOR CROATIAN RETURNEES SIGNED IN

IN $ ZAGREB ZAGREB, 12 Dec (Hina) - The head of the Government Office for Displaced Persons and Refugees, Damir Zoric and representatives of three Croatian companies on Thursday signed an agreement on the delivery of equipment for refugees who have returned to the liberated Croatian areas in the Dalmatian hinterland. The purchase of the equipment, which is worth US $200,000, was financed by the Italian government. The donation, mediated by the U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), is the last part of an Italian government program on aid to Croatian returnees in Dalmatia. The total value of the program amounts to US $1,2 million. The returnees are to receive 26 tractors and 20 cultivators, olive-tree, cherry-tree and almond-tree seedlings as well as fertilizers. The equipment will be delivered by companies 'MIO Osijek', 'Poljoopskrba' from Zagreb and 'CIB Trade' from Sibenik. The signing of the agreement was attended by Italian Embassy officials Giulio Marongi and Franco Scardia and an UNHCR representative John Bullard. (hina) rm jn 121902 MET dec 96