BOSNIAN CROATS DISCUSS RETURN OF DISPLACED TO MOSTAR

( Editorial: --> 0175 ) MOSTAR, July 27 (Hina) - Croat officials in Mostar and the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton on Monday discussed the Mostar plan of return. They concluded that the plan should be adopted unconditionally, the Bosnian Croat news agency Habena said. The plan stipulates that 200 Croat houses currently engaged by Bosniaks (Moslems), in Mostar's neighbourhoods of Polje and Bijelo Polje, be vacated. The Bosniaks that would leave the houses have to be found adequate accommodation. The Croat officials did not accept a motion by the chief of the Mostar Office of the International High Representative, Martin Garrod, that houses be built for these Bosniaks in Stolac and Capljina, in exchange for their vacating the Bijelo Polje houses. In relation to the return of displaced persons into Mostar's municipalities with a Croat majority, heads of these municipalities said that the return of Bosniaks was in progress and that the plan of return has been fully implemented in the municipality of Jug, Habena said. (hina) lml as 271854 MET jul 98