SARAJEVO, Feb 9 (Hina) - As of this April, first significant results in the return of refugees to Bosnia-Herzegovina should be more noticeable, Andy Bearpark told Hina on Tuesday, Baerpark who is the deputy of the High Representative
(Carlos Westendorp) to Bosnia, in charge of the reconstruction and development, said that more noticeable effects should be produced by the implementation of the 1999 campaigning plan for the return, drawn up by a special department of the Office of the High Representative, called Reconstruction and Return Task Force - RRTF. In his interview to Hina, Bearpark said the RRTF plan was an attempt to unify potentials of all international organisations engaged in the process of the return of refugees to Bosnia in order to make their work more effective. But, local authorities in Bosnia are still holding the key to the success, he stressed. The RRTF campai
SARAJEVO, Feb 9 (Hina) - As of this April, first significant results
in the return of refugees to Bosnia-Herzegovina should be more
noticeable, Andy Bearpark told Hina on Tuesday,
Baerpark who is the deputy of the High Representative (Carlos
Westendorp) to Bosnia, in charge of the reconstruction and
development, said that more noticeable effects should be produced
by the implementation of the 1999 campaigning plan for the return,
drawn up by a special department of the Office of the High
Representative, called Reconstruction and Return Task Force -
RRTF.
In his interview to Hina, Bearpark said the RRTF plan was an attempt
to unify potentials of all international organisations engaged in
the process of the return of refugees to Bosnia in order to make
their work more effective.
But, local authorities in Bosnia are still holding the key to the
success, he stressed.
The RRTF campaign for the return in 1999 contains neither figures
nor deadlines, due to negative experience from 1998 which had been
declared a year of the return and when similar aims had been set but
had not been fulfilled.
The so-called minority returns will be given priority by the Office
of the High Representative (OHR) this year. It refers to return of
members of one of the Bosnian constituent nations to villages and
towns where their people is in the minority while one of the other
two constituent peoples are a majority.
The serious problems were the non-existence of laws in the Bosnian
Serb entity to provide for the ownership rights or the inadequate
enforcement of such laws in the Croat-Moslem Federation. This can
be tolerated no longer, Bearpark said.
In the plan, the OHR envisaged a broader role of the NATO-led
Stabilisation Force (SFOR), members of which should now be more
active in the protection of returnees.
The most interesting part of the plan, about which OHR officials
declined to comment officially, is the 12 "returning axes" covering
the areas of priority for the return of refugees.
Baerpark only said that their plans also included different parts
of Bosnia according to the criteria of their manifest readiness for
the implementation of the project of return.
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