ZAGREB, Oct 12 (Hina) - The Croatian Displaced Persons' Association ended its fourth conference in Zagreb on Saturday afternoon by adopting conclusions of two working groups named "Reintegration of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and
Western Sirmium," and "Reconstruction and Return to Home" respectively.
ZAGREB, Oct 12 (Hina) - The Croatian Displaced Persons' Association
ended its fourth conference in Zagreb on Saturday afternoon by
adopting conclusions of two working groups named "Reintegration of
Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium," and "Reconstruction
and Return to Home" respectively. #L#
In its conclusions the working group for reintegration of
eastern Croatia backed a Croatian Parliament resolution on the end
of the UNTAES mandate and conclusions of recent refugees' rallies.
The group demanded from the Government to implement the
documents.
It demanded that elections in eastern Croatia should be held
until December 15, 1996 according to the 1991 census and Croatia's
regulations.
The group warned that the Association itself would organize
return to eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Sirmium after
January 15, 1997 in case that the U.N. Security Council failed to
pass a resolution on verifying agreement between Croatia's
leadership and the international community on the end of the UNTAES
mandate.
Emphasizing that it would not accept changes in demographic
and national structure of eastern Croatia, the Association's group
demanded from the Government to prevent further looting of the area
in question.
It also asked that the Government and UNTAES ensure safe
visits of displaced people to cemeteries in the Croatian Danubian
area on All Souls' Day.
Supporting the Government's efforts to establish the fate of
all missing people the Association insisted that the care for
missing people's families should be a primary and permanent task of
the entire Croatia.
At the end of the conclusions this group assigned to the
Croatian Government a commitment of solving displaced people's
status and social issues.
The working group for reconstruction asked the Government to
enforce the law on reconstruction and legislation referring to
displaced people, their return as well as to the normalization of
life in liberated areas.
The group called on displaced people who can come home to move
into their hometowns immediately, in order to speed up the
reconstruction and help improve care for refugees who cannot still
return to their houses.
It asked for better control over resources available to
reconstruction, speedy payment of financial support to returnees
and displaced people, and quick mine-clearance in liberated areas.
In its conclusions the group asked the Government to ensure
accommodation of the old and infirm and also asked the Croatian
Bank for Reconstruction and Development to distribute credits for
incentives to economy in liberated areas.
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