KINSHASA, Nov 10 (Reuter) - The European Union's outspoken aid commissioner Emma Bonino held talks with members of Zaire's government on Sunday and said afterwards that any repatriation of Hutu refugees had to be voluntary. Bonino's talks followed the departure of U.N. special envoy Raymond Chretien, who expressed frustration at obstacles to efforts to get food and medicine to more than a million refugees and displaced Zaireans fleeing a Tutsi revolt in the east. "My duty is to apply the humanitarian conventions," Bonino told reporters after denouncing United Nations Security Council delays over constitution of an international force. "I am opposed to any forced repatriation," she added. Zaire, which says the refugees should be sent home to Rwanda and Burundi and fed there, called for the proposed force to have more than just a humanitarian mandate. "This mandate must be both humanitarian and political to cover all aspects of the situation on the ground," Interior Minister Kamanda wa Kamanda told reporters.

"The political dimension of this problem is dominant. The U.N. must essentially address this political dimension." Kamanda said Chretien had left on Sunday. Officials said his destinations were Uganda and Rwanda. "It's extremely frustrating for me to see more obstacles presenting themselves than possible solutions," Chretien said on Saturday night after talks with the Zairean government. "I have been given 10 days to report back to the (U.N.) Secretary-General with a plan of action concentrating on the humanitarian question," he added, noting that the security of aid workers had to be guaranteed. Bonino said before leaving Brussels that she was travelling to Zaire to get a first-hand account of the situation and wanted to visit refugee camps in war-ravaged eastern Zaire. She said she was at a loss how to explain her mission to the refugees, who have been abandoned to their fate for over a week after a Tutsi revolt there sent foreign aid workers fleeing to the comparative safety of neighbouring Rwanda and Bur

undi. "How can I tell them the Security Council doesn't see... doesn't listen... doesn't care," she said on Saturday. The European Commission wanted the council to call for the immediate creation of a multinational force to deploy in the east, where Tutsi rebels hold many of the main towns. The United States, mindful of its ill-fated involvement in a similar force in Somalia, requested more time to study the options. The council urged U.N. members to lay the groundwork for a multinational force but postponed a decision on deployment until November 20. "The states who prevented a force being deployed are an international scandal...an international disgrace," Bonino said. The crisis is rooted in Tutsi-Hutu hatred that has poisoned life for generations in neighbouring Rwanda and Burundi. Hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees and displaced Zaireans fled the Tutsi revolt in eastern Zaire. The whereabouts of many of them is unclear. The Hutus fled Rwanda in 1994 fearing reprisals from returning Tutsi exil

es after Hutu hardliners massacred up yo a million minority Tutsis and their sympathisers. Zaire accuses Tutsi-led Rwanda of fomenting the revolt to create a buffer zone between its border and armed Hutu hardliners living among the refugees.