11 500 BOSNIAK REFUGEES RETURN TO MAJORITY CROAT AREAS

( Editorial: --> 3312 ) MOSTAR, 13 Aug (Hina) - Between the signing of the Dayton peace agreement and 30 June this year, 11,583 Muslims had returned to Croat majority territory in the Croat-Muslim Federation, UNHCR spokeswoman in Bosnia-Herzegovina Arianne Quentier told a press conference in Mostar on Wednesday. In the same period, 26,210 Croats had returned to majority Muslim areas. Quentier resented Mostar deputy mayor Ivan Prskalo negating the truth about the UNHCR help to Croat returnees. The UNHCR had spent nine million German marks for the Croat community last and this year, she said. The money was used for the construction of schools and communal infrastructure and for the destitute in western Mostar, Posusje, Livno, Jajce, Novi Travnik, Prozor, Rama, Ljubuski, Capljina and Stolac. On 17 July this year, head of the UNHCR southern sector Neill Wright sent Prskalo a detailed report on how much money had been allocated to Croat returnees, Quentier said. (hina)) rml 131024 MET aug 98