DR REBIC'S CONFERENCE UPON HIS ARRIVAL FROM GERMANY

ZAGREB, Feb 4 (Hina) - At a press-conference, held in Zagreb on Friday evening, Dr Adalbert Rebic, the head of the Croatian Government's Office for the Refugees and the Displaced Persons, said that "the date and way of returning of Croatian refugees from Germany to the free areas of Croatia will be decided precisely at a session of the interior ministers of Germany, convened for 9 February." Dr Rebic stated this upon his arrival from the Federal Republic of Germany to which he had paid four-day visit. Commenting on his reception in Germany, Dr Rebic expressed satisfaction because of the willingness of the German authorities to meet Croatia's request not to return the refugees whose homes are on the occupied territories and in crisis areas still exposed to the aggressors' attacks as well as not to return refugees whose homes are destroyed. The refugees who can come back to Croatia are to start their return after 30 April. Unmarried persons will be returned first, then couples without children, and eventually families with children will be returned. Croatia has requested that the refugees with the dual citizenship (those who have the citizenship of both Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina) be retained in Germany until the B-H crisis could be solved. At a rough estimate there are about 100,000 such refugees in Germany. Dr Rebic announced the visit of the Croatian Deputy Prime Minister, Dr Ivica Kostovic, to Germany next week because of this issue. 042109 MET feb 94