SOROS FOUNDATION DONATED 4,5 MILLIONS US $

ZAGREB, Nov 29 (Hina) - Soros Humanitarian Foundation donated almost 4,5 millions of US $ for humanitarian aid to refugees, displaced persons and civilian victims of the war in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, said in Zagreb Karmen Basic, executive director of the Foundation. Hospitals and centres for refugees in Croatia received about 1,1 million of US $. Soros Foundation finds that Croatian government takes care on 248 thousands of refugees and more than 240 thousands of displaced persons. In the same time more than 2,3 millions of people in Bosnia need humanitarian aid. Soros Foundation is also drawing attention to difficult position of Croats in central Bosnian enclaves. Foundation's office for Bosnia in Ploce delivered more than 32 percent of aid into this area. Almost one third of humanitarian aid, 600 thousand dollars, is assigned to refugees in Herzegovina, while rest of money was spent for aid to people of Sarajevo and eastern Bosnia. 291614 MET nov 93