CONFERENCE ON CROATO-SERB RELATIONS TAKES PLACE IN BELGRADE

BELGRADE, Feb 1 (Hina) - A two-day round table conference on relations between Croats and Serbs and the problem of refugees ended on Friday evening. The conference was organized by the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, and participating in it were almost a hundred representatives of non-government humanitarian and anti-war organizations from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro. #L# The conference's unanimous decision was that the governments of countries created in the region of former Yugoslavia did not show sufficient will and readiness to resolve the problem of refugees and an international conference was suggested, which would establish the commitments of governments in the region. Many participants discussed disputable issues in the relations between Croats and Serbs. The stance that Belgrade's politics were responsible for initiating the war in the region of former Yugoslavia dominated, but it was established that all sides had committed war crimes. Many expressed doubt that the regimes that had led the war could ensure peace and solve one of the consequences of the war - the problem of displaced persons and refugees. Some said that the problem of refugees could not be solved as long as their organizations and associations represented themselves from different nationalist positions. Most of the participants of the conference will participate in another round-table conference which is to take place on Saturday in the organization of the Belgrade Circle of Independent Intellectuals. The conference will focus on the implementation of the civilian part of the Dayton Agreement. (hina) lm 011024 MET feb 97