The Republic of Croatia grants all of its citizens the right to return to Croatia, regardless of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliation. In order to promote and facilitate the return of Croatian citizens of Serb ethnicity, the Croatian Parliament and the Croatian Government passed the following five laws and regulations:
  1. Procedures for Individual Return of Persons who left the Republic of Croatia, April 27, 1998
  2. Mandatory Instructions for Acquiring Documents Required for the Individual Return   Procedure, May 14, 1998
  3. Program for Return and Accommodation of Displaced Persons, Refugees and   Resettled Persons, June 26, 1998
  4. Continuation of the Program for Reconstruction of War Damaged Settlements,   October 15, 1998
  5. Mandatory Instructions on Modality and Procedure for Exercising the Right to   Reconstruction and Housing of Specified Persons, December 3, 1998

  Since the end of the war in 1995, a total of 66,910 Serbs have returned to their homes in the Republic of Croatia. This number of Serbian returnees constitutes a major success for the return policy of the Croatian Government and a significant contribution to the stabilization of the region.

  The Stability Pact project, "The Voluntarily Repatriation and Sustainable Reintegration of Croatian Refugees" is aimed at supporting further development of physical and socioeconomic conditions as well as procedures to facilitate the voluntary repatriation and sustainable reintegration of Croatian Serbs. The project involves 16,500 Serbian refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia whom are returning to the Republic of Croatia.

  The Government of Croatia urges similar steps to be undertaken to facilitate the return of Bosnian Croats now residing in Croatia to their homes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.