CROATIA NEEDS MORE AID FROM UNHCR

GENEVA, Oct 5 (Hina) - Serb-controlled areas in Bosnia and Croatia's occupied territories (UNPA's) received more food aid than the 400,000 refugees and displaced people staying in other parts of Croatia, the Croatian Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Miomir Zuzul said. Zuzul was speaking at an UNHCR Executive Committee session chaired by Sadako Ogata. He told the session that Croatia received only a small part of a US $900 million aid UNHCR grant given to the area of former Yugoslavia last year. Serbia, condemned by the international community as the aggressor against Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, was receiving much more financial assistance for refugees than Croatia, Zuzul said. He said new waves of refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina were arriving in Croatia every day, particularly from Banja Luka, Zenica, Tuzla and Sarajevo. Croatia had signed all agreements on the return of refugees from some countries and was expecting international financial assistance for reconstruction and the process of repatriating refugees and displaced people. (hina) jas sd mm 052001 MET oct 94