RESIDENTS OF RECONSTRUCTED VUKOVAR BUILDING RECEIVE KEYS TO FLATS

( Editorial: --> 3181 ) VUKOVAR, June 23 (Hina) - Vukovar Mayor Vladimir Stengl on Tuesday handed over the keys to a residential building reconstructed with a $235,000 donation from the Belgian Government. Twelve flats had been reconstructed in the building and 10 residents received their keys at Tuesday's ceremony in the eastern Croatian city. Thanking the Belgian Government for its help, the United Nations Secretary-General's envoy to Croatia and head of the UN Civil Police Support Group, Souren Seraydarian, said that very few families had been involved in the return process, which was discouraging for those who had waited seven years to return to their birthplace. The reason for this is the difficult state of the economy which needs an urgent revival because without the opening of working places there obviously will not be any return, Seraydarian said. He assessed the readiness of international donors to be included in the renewal of the Danube River region but this would depend on the implementation of the procedures for the return of refugees and displaced people. Seraydarian announced that next week reconstruction of another residential building in Vukovar would be completed, this one containing 44 flats. The Belgian Government has provided aid worth about $6 million in the Croatian Danube region up to now. (Hina) mbr jn /mro 231850 MET jun 98