ALLOCATION OF AID HAS TO BE BALANCED - BH CROAT OFFICIALS

( Editorial: --> 7910 ) SARAJEVO, July 15 (Hina) - High Representative in Bosnia- Herzegovina Carlos Westendorp on Wednesday received a Croat delegation from the Croat-Muslim Federation, at their request. The delegation included Federation Vice President Vladimir Soljic and Deputy Prime Minister Drago Bilandzija. The two sides discussed the return of 350,000 Bosnian Croat refugees to their homes. It was agreed that the current dynamics of return was not satisfactory and that concrete steps had to be taken to step it up. Special attention was paid to the distribution of aid for the reconstruction of damaged and destroyed Croat homes. The Croat officials expressed dissatisfaction with the percentage of allocated aid and the method of setting priorities in the reconstruction process. It was concluded that the slow pace of reconstruction was the major obstacle to the return and that the allocation of aid to date had to be re-examined and irregularities corrected. (hina) rml 152121 MET jul 98