SERB PEOPLE'S PARTY DISSATISFIED WITH RESULTS OF UNTAES MANDATE

( Editorial: --> 6426 ) ZAGREB, 22 Jan (Hina) - The Serb People's Party (SNS) said it was dissatisfied with the results of the UNTAES mandate in the Croatian Danube River region. The aim of the mandate was the integration of territory and establishment of the legal order, but not the integration of local Serbs, "whose emigration, contrary to official claims, has continued", said the SNS President Milan Djukic. The two-way return is a "farce of the official policy and the negation of the return of Serbs," who are almost non-existent in eastern Slavonia, said Djukic. "There are only some 3,000 families who live in Croat houses there," said Djukic. Quoting data provided by the local Serbs, Djukic said some 40,000 to 45,000 Serbs from the Danubian region had left Croatia. A large part of the remaining Serbs still have problems with exercising their right to work, they do not have social insurance, they have difficulties in reclaiming their property and cannot enter their homes and, unlike Croats, they are not being given livestock, Djukic said. Commenting on a recent visit to Croatia by the UN commissioner for missing persons Bob Dole, Djukic said he was embittered because talks with Dole did not include the problem of Serbs, Croatian citizens, who since 1991 disappeared from urban settlements, and those Serbs who disappeared during the Croatian military operations 'Flash' and 'Storm' and afterwards. According to Djukic, there were some 3,500 such cases. (hina) jn rm 221726 MET jan 98