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Viewing cable 08ZAGREB357, DEPUTY PM UZELAC ASSURES PROGRESS WILL BE MADE ON

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08ZAGREB357 2008-05-07 14:44 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Zagreb
VZCZCXRO7483
RR RUEHAG RUEHAST RUEHBW RUEHDA RUEHDF RUEHFL RUEHIK RUEHKW RUEHLA
RUEHLN RUEHLZ RUEHPOD RUEHROV RUEHSR RUEHVK RUEHYG
DE RUEHVB #0357/01 1281444
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 071444Z MAY 08
FM AMEMBASSY ZAGREB
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 8300
INFO RUEHZL/EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE
RUEHBW/AMEMBASSY BELGRADE 1983
RUEHLJ/AMEMBASSY LJUBLJANA 6410
RUEHPOD/AMEMBASSY PODGORICA
RUEHVJ/AMEMBASSY SARAJEVO 0282
RUEHTI/AMEMBASSY TIRANA 0827
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 ZAGREB 000357 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR PRM, EUR/SCE AND EUR/RPM, BELGRADE FOR REFCOORD 
JIKICH 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREF PGOV PREL HR EUC REFUGEES
SUBJECT: DEPUTY PM UZELAC ASSURES PROGRESS WILL BE MADE ON 
REFUGEE RETURN 
 
ZAGREB 00000357  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
 1. SUMMARY: In an April 25 meeting with representatives of 
the international community, recently appointed Deputy Prime 
Minister Slobodan Uzelac promised significant progress in the 
promotion of refugee returns in the immediate future. 
Uzelac, the Croatian Serb minority party's representative in 
the government, outlined the GoC's refugee return strategy, 
to include resolution of previously stalled issues.  The 
meeting included the Deputy PM, the highest-level Croatian 
official yet to assume direct responsibility for refugee 
return issues, as well as other senior representatives of the 
GOC, the EC, UNHCR, U.S. Embassy, and the Zagreb based office 
of the OSCE. International participants were pleasantly 
surprised as Uzelac unveiled his plan for providing housing 
for an estimated 7,000 occupancy tenancy rights holders. In 
addition, Uzelac plans to immediately institute an appeals 
mechanism for those denied housing, quietly resolve the 
thorny issue of convalidation of pensions, and personally 
work to resolve legal cases of occupied agricultural land and 
unsolicited investments by temporary occupants.  The meeting 
also marked the EC's assumption of the leading role on return 
issues from the OSCE, as reflection that GoC performance in 
implementing its plans will be part of their opening 
negotiations on Chapter 23 (Judiciary and Fundamental Rights) 
of the European Union Accession process. END SUMMARY 
 
7000 CASES OF OCCUPANCY TENANCY RIGHTS HOLDERS TO BE RESOLVED 
BY END OF 2009 
---------------------------------------- 
 
2. At present, almost 7000 family applications from OTR 
holders are either awaiting allocation of housing or court 
decisions. During the April 25 meeting, State Secretary 
Milivoj Mikulic, with the support of DPM Uzelac, announced 
that the cases of 1,400 tenancy rights holding households 
would be successfully processed by June 30, and that another 
4,400 were expected to be processed by the end of 2009. 
Uzelac further promised that, by September 2008, 
reconstruction efforts would have begun on over 1000 
apartments reserved for OTR holders in the cities of Vukovar, 
Sisak, and Sibenik, and Zadar County.  While meeting these 
targets would not completely eliminate the problem of housing 
for this vulnerable population of refugees, Uzelac estimated 
that some 1,200 applicant households will be unreachable and 
therefore should not be included in the overall targets. 
These include some who have not responded to GOC letters or 
requests for additional information, whose contact 
information is not reliable, and even some who have died in 
the intervening years. 
 
APPEALS MECHANISM TO BE INSTITUTED 
------------------------------------- 
 
3. As part of an initiative to ensure fairness and 
transparency in a notoriously bureaucratic and slow process, 
Uzelac informed the group that an appellate procedure was 
introduced in hopes of addressing over 850 negative decisions 
awaiting appeal. Under the newly formed "Directorate for 
Areas of Special State Concern" within the Ministry for 
Regional Development, first instance administrative decisions 
regarding applications to the housing care program will occur 
at the local level, but can now also be appealed. While 
second instance decisions will still occur within the same 
ministry, the hearings are scheduled to occur in the capital 
city of Zagreb by officials who were not involved in the 
initial finding. As a further sign of good will, Uzelac 
publicly invited the international community, in particular 
the UNHCR, to assist in participating in the monitoring and 
the review of individual cases as they work their way through 
the new appeals structure. While the exact mechanism through 
which the joint-review would occur remains undefined, Uzelac 
confirmed that the appeals mechanism is ready to begin 
operations in the weeks ahead. 
 
CONVALIDATION OF PENSIONS TO QUIETLY BE RESOLVED (SBU) 
--------------------------------------------- -------------- 
 
4. (SBU)   Deputy Prime Minister Uzelac and his Minister of 
Regional Development, Forestry and Water Management, Petar 
Cobankovic, committed to intensely working to solve the 
unresolved issue of convalidation of pensions in the next 30 
days. In practice, crediting time worked towards retirement 
will mean only a small increase of under $40 a month to most 
 
ZAGREB 00000357  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
Serb retirees' pensions. Representatives at the meeting were 
told an "ordinance" resolving the problem of crediting years 
of service in the former Serb Occupied Areas would quietly be 
released in the immediate future. Uzelac asked the 
international community representatives to keep this decision 
quiet for now. 
 
UNRESOLVED LEGAL CASES OF OCCUPIED AGRICULTURAL LAND AND 
UNSOLICITED INVESTMENTS BY TEMPORARY OCCUPANTS 
--------------------------------------------- --------- 
 
6.  Uzelac optimistically promised to personally visit all 
cases of occupied agricultural land and to investigate them 
over the next 3 months. Uzelac further extended an invitation 
to members of the international community to accompany him on 
his initial fact finding visits. In addition, Uzelac 
committed himself to fully mobilizing GOC resources to 
resolve the 21 remaining "unsolicited investment" cases, 
where temporary occupants had put money into the houses and 
were now seeking reimbursement from the building's original 
Serb owners. 
Bradtke