RE-REGISTRATION OF DISPLACED IN VUKOVAR COUNTY COMPLETED

( Editorial: --> 2626 ) VINKOVCI, March 26 (Hina) - Employees with the Vinkovci-based Office for Displaced Persons and Refugees completed the re- registration of displaced people in the part of the Croatian Danubian region which is covered by Vukovar-Srijem County. From 2 February to 24 March, re-registration teams visited 7,383 addresses where displaced people were registered and in 4,266 cases did not find registered families, who returned to other parts of Croatia or left the country. The teams found 3,117 families at registered addresses. Of that number, 1,418 families said they wanted to return to their pre-war places of residence, 772 families wanted to sell their property, and 645 families wanted to stay in the region, Ante Drmic, head of the regional Office for Displaced and Refugees in Vinkovci, told reporters on Thursday. Drmic said that 282 families still have not decided what to do, adding that the deadline by which they should make their decision is not known. The largest number of displaced families was registered in Vukovar (1,227). Around 6,000 people have returned to the Vukovar County, out of which 4,180 have regulated their returnee status. The highest number of returnees was registered in those towns and villages which were reconstructed or had not suffered extensive war destruction, like Ilok, where 322 families have returned. So far, 568 families have returned to the villages of the Srijem triangle, 264 to Ceric and 177 to Vukovar. (hina) mm rm/mrb 261942 MET mar 98