AID OF SWISS GOVERNMENT TO SOUTHERN CROATIA

SPLIT, July 5 (Hina) - County-Prefect of Split-Dalmatia, Kruno Peronja with his assistants, received today in Split a delegation of Swiss Foreign Ministry's agency for aid in disaster. The head of the delegation, Hans Wittwer, informed Croatian hosts of reaching an agreement with the municipality of Hrvace (in the Split hinterland) on the reconstruction and repairs on the primary school and 53 houses. The agreement is about the aid worth of 2,350,000 German marks. The Swiss agency has been sending aid to Croatia since the outbreak of the war. Now it is planning to help in the reconstruction of war-damaged houses and buildings. Wittwer stressed that the agency would draw up the plan on reconstruction and redecoration of houses in Potravlje, and by the end of the year it would make plans for reconstruction of war-stricken villages, building of schools and homes for aged and retired and institutions for handicapped children in the areas of Dubrovnik, Sibenik, Zadar and Biograd (southern Croatia). Hans Wittwer also said that the Swiss government would advocate the international factors' stronger and more effective support to Croatia in its intentions to return displaced persons peacefully to their homes from where they were exiled by Serb forces more than three years ago. 051859 MET jul 94