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HR-POLITICS-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO.4899 HINA Zagreb, 20 March 2003 CROAT PRESIDENT ADDRESSES NATION ON OCCASION OF ATTACK ON IRAQZAGREB, March 20 (Hina) - The military operation of the United States and the United
Kingdom, and a group of their allies against Iraq is based on the independent decisions of the countries whose troops are involved, it has no foundation in terms of a United Nations mandate, and in this respect this military action lacks legitimacy, said Croatian President Stjepan Mesic in his address to the nation on Croatian Television Thursday night. "The Republic of Croatia has announced that it would support the military option only if it is the consequence of a clear and unambiguous decision of the world organisation. Tonight I can only reiterate this strict principled position," Mesic said. Describing Saddam Hussein's regime as "a bloody and brutal dictatorship", the president said that Croatia had never underestimated the danger of uncontrolled pro