61.   Stepashin said they discussed prospects for refugee returns and disarming the Kosovo Liberation Army.

62.   That is a key issue as thousands of refugees try return home under the freedom-of-movement provisions of the peace accord.

63.   That risk is driving Western efforts to get a commitment from Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to end the government offensive and permit mass refugee returns.

64.   The Bosnian Serb government is to complete a plan for refugee return by late May.

65.   The conference set deadlines as soon as a few weeks away in some cases for adopting laws permitting quick refugee returns.

66.   The conference aims at accelerating refugee returns by strengthening political commitments and laws and removing administrative stumbling blocks in Bosnia, Croatia and Yugoslavia.

67.   The joint presidency no longer functions, the main ethnic groups are squabbling and refugee returns are on hold.

68.   The governments of Croatia and the Serb-controlled half of Bosnia were urged to speed up refugee returns Tuesday at a conference of international and local officials.

69.   The project was aimed at improving Muslim-Croat relations and testing the water for larger-scale refugee returns.

70.   The supervisor also will be able to set rules concerning refugee returns, freedom of movement and democratization.