REFUGEES REFUSE TO MOVE OUT OF HOTEL IN VODICE

SIBENIK, 1 July (Hina) - All Croat and Bosniac refugees currently accommodated in the hotel Imperijal in Vodice, central Adriatic, will have to move out by the end of this week. Refugees from Croatia will move into the hotel Olimpija in Vodice, while refugees from Bosnia- Herzegovina will be relocated to the refugee centre on the island of Obonjan, said Sanja Lovrecic, secretary with the Government Office for Displaced Persons and Refugees, after a meeting between the municipal heads of Sibenik County and exiled Croat municipal heads. The meeting was held behind closed doors in Sibenik Tuesday. #L# The meeting had to be held because the refugees, some 220 of them, refused to move to the buildings they had been offered. The regional centre for refugees in Sibenik stopped delivering food today, but the refugees remained by their decision not to leave the hotel Imperijal, Lovrecic said. She said that the refugees would have to be relocated and that no one had been deprived of the right to accommodation and food. They did not get food in the Imperial but it is waiting for them in those facilities they have to be relocated to, Lovrecic said. (hina) rm mm 012150 MET jul 97