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VUKOVAR, June 30 (Hina) - The Croatian government's programme for
the return of refugees, displaced and exiled persons is a good step
towards European integration, the president of the Council of
Europe Parliamentary Assembly Leni Fischer said in Vukovar,
eastern Croatia, on Tuesday.
Fischer said she supported Croatia in its aspiration to enter
European integration.
Today she met with the president of the National Trust
Establishment Committee Vesna Skare-Ozbolt,
The majority of difficulties in the Danube river region of eastern
Croatia are related to the reconstruction of houses and the revival
of economy, Skare-Ozbolt said, emphasising this is the basic
condition for the return.
There were about 26,000 displaced persons in eastern Croatia
following the termination of the United Nations transitional
administration in the area (UNTAES) in January, Skare-Ozbolt said,
adding half of that figure had returned to other parts of Croatia so
far.
Vukovar County Prefect Rudolf Koening called on the international
community to take part in the reconstruction of eastern Croatia, in
particular through loans for small and medium-sized enterprise.
"The Serb national community supports the (above-mentioned) return
programme, even though it is not comprehensive", the vice president
of the National Trust Establishment Committee Vojislav
Stanimirovic said.
Speaking about yesterday's visit to some refugee camps in
Yugoslavia, Stanimirovic said Serb refugees primarily complained
of difficulties in obtaining documents necessary for Croatian
citizenship.
"We visited the Croatian Embassy in Belgrade and I believe it is
unacceptable that only 30 requests (for returning to Croatia) per
day are admitted. With this tempo people will not have returned in
the next five years", said Stanimirovic.
Leni Fischer also visited the New Cemetery in Vukovar where
exhumations of the remains of 938 victims of Serbian aggression on
Vukovar were completed last week. Fischer laid a wreath by the
central cross on the Croatian Defenders Boulevard.
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