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OSIJEK/VUKOVAR, April 8 (Hina) - The UN High Commissioner for
Refugees, Sadako Ogata, on Wednesday held talks with the head of
Osijek's regional office for refugees and displaced persons, Nada
Arbanas, after which she met the head of the UN civilian police
support group, Souren Seraydarin, OSCE and UNHCR representatives
and representatives of the Serb national minority.
The talks in Osijek focused on the situation in the Croatian Danube
River region, how many people were yet to return to the area and the
difficulties in the return of displaced Croats and Serbs. The
situation in the Danubian area was also compared to the situation of
return of refugees to Knin, Donji Srb, Korenica and other places
liberated through the Croatian military operations "Flash" and
"Storm", head of the Croatian government Office for Refugees and
Displaced Persons, Lovre Pejkovic, said.
After holding talks with Ogata in Vukovar, president of the Joint
Council of (Serb) Municipalities, Milos Vojnovic, said that Serb
representatives had said the inequality in the approach of the
Croatian authority towards Serbs and Croats was still noticeable.
They had expressed dissatisfaction about the process of return of
Serb refugees, which was too slow and should be expedited, Vojnovic
said.
"We pointed out to the UN High Commissioner a number of regulations
which maintain the discriminatory situation in the conduct of the
Croatian state towards Serbs," Vojnovic said.
He added that the "actions undertaken by the Croatian side to
abolish certain laws are not that significant, because the legal
consequences caused by the laws are not being abolished".
Ogata left Vukovar for FR Yugoslavia.
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