UNHCR TO RETURN 221 FAMILIES TO SEPARATION ZONE IN NORTH BOSNIA

ZENICA, Nov 8 (Hina) - The UN High Commission for Refugees plans to return 221 Moslem and Croat families to their homes in the separation zone in the Doboj area of northern Bosnia despite opposition from local Serb authorities, a UNHCR spokesman said on Friday. Members of 221 families will tour their homes next week. They will not go inside the houses which are currently inhabited and we will make sure they are vacated in the next five months to make it possible for their owners to move in, UNHCR spokesman Joaquim Gonzales Aleman told reporters in the central town of Zenica. The implementation of the entire programme of return to the separation zone will depend on the success of this action, he stressed. The families will return to the villages of Milkovac, Makljenovac, Poljice, Sijerina Rijeka, Stanica Rijeka and Svjetlice. (hina) vm mm 082002 MET nov 96