CROATIA ATTENDS INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR MIGRATIONS' SESSION

SESSION GENEVA, May 23 (Hina) - The International Organisation for Migrations (IOM) Executive Council which gathers 55 countries today held a session in Geneva. The session concentrated on current problems of world migrations, especially on the problems of refugees, displaced people and national migrants. Participators in the session, including the Croatian delegation, discussed the latest IOM document called "Strategic Planning Ahead of 21st Century". Addressing the participators, Croatian representative at the UN in Geneva, Tomislav Thuer, said that Croatia appreciated IOM's efforts in the country, especially its programmes for reuniting families and rehabilitating ill and wounded Croats in hospitals abroad. There could be neither normalization of situation in Croatia nor return of 380,000 refugees and displaced persons, who are taken care of by the Croatian government, without lasting political settlement and peaceful reintegration, Thuer said. He also said that the liberation of western Slavonia could serve as an example for peaceful reintegration of other occupied Croatian territories. The action in western Slavonia made possible the return of 14,078 displaced persons, among whom 7 percent were of Serb nationality, Thuer said. (hina) rm 232129 MET may 95