CONCLUSIONS OF CROATIAN DISPLACED PERSONS' ASSOCIATION ASSEMBLY

OSIJEK, Feb 8 (Hina) - The extraordinary assembly of the Croatian Displaced Persons' Association which took place in Osijek on Saturday reached the following decisions: 1) The Extraordinary assembly of the Croatian Displaced Persons' Association accepts the Croatian government Letter of Intent and the UN Security Council Presidential Statement about the reintegration of eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Srijem as a reality and a good basis for ending the process of reintegration and the return of displaced persons to their homes. 2)Through the mentioned documents, Serbs received significantly more rights than other national minorities in Croatia, that is, rights which surpass international standards, so any further concessions would be unacceptable. 3) The Croatian Displaced Persons' Association hails the agreement among Croatian political parties about a unified appearance at elections for the local self-government in the Croatian Danubian area as a guarantee of our final democratic victory in the region. 4) The Croatian Displaced Persons' Association considers the forthcoming elections of essential and historic importance, as well as the precondition for the completion of all UN mandates in the region and the creation of conditions for complete security for the return of displaced persons. After the elections, the area under the UNTAES administration is to be returned into Croatia's constitutional, legal and political system as a guarantee for the return, peace, security and development. The Croatian Displaced Persons' Association will thus engage itself without reservation into preparations for the elections with the aim of mobilising the overall displaced persons' corps, and we request of the Croatian government impeccable technical preparations for the elections, so that every displaced person could be able to vote. 5) The Croatian Displaced Persons' Association requests of the Transitional Administrator General Jacques Klein that the ethnic structure of the Transitional Police be changed prior to the elections, as a guarantee that the elections would pass in peace, without any pressure, and also that the process of constituting the elected self-government and the handover of authority take a normal course. 6) The extraordinary assembly of the Croatian Displaced Persons' Association calls on Serbs in the Croatian Danubian area to abandon unrealistic requests, to refuse obedience to their power-holders who keep driving them to exodus and to, on the basis of the principle every one returns to their home, decide to vote at elections for the local self- government in places where they lived in 1991 because in is in their own interest. 7) The Croatian Displaced Persons' Association requests of the Croatian government and Transitional Administrator Jacques Klein to recognise and remove all war criminals in the Croatian Danubian area in order to contribute to the quality of reintegration and its speedier implementation. 8) The Croatian Displaced Persons' Association requests of the Croatian government and UNTAES to take all necessary measures to ensure the non-Serb population in the Croatian Danubian area a completely safe and democratic access to elections. (hina) lm 081813 MET feb 97