ZAGREB, June 27 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic on Thursday held talks with the head of the UN liaison office in Croatia, Kishore Mandhyana, who expressed his concern over attempts of some Croatian government officials and
parliamentarians to relativise the Erdut Agreement.
ZAGREB, June 27 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic on
Thursday held talks with the head of the UN liaison office in
Croatia, Kishore Mandhyana, who expressed his concern over
attempts of some Croatian government officials and
parliamentarians to relativise the Erdut Agreement. #L#
President Mesic told Mr. Mandhyana that the contents of the Erdut
agreement should be regulated by laws, according to a statement
issued by Mesic's office.
The UN liaison office's head expressed concern over recent
statements of some government officials and MPs aimed at the
relativisation of the Erdut agreement and at the conclusion that it
was no longer valid.
The agreement, signed in the eastern Croatian town of Erdut,
stipulated conditions for the peaceful reintegration of the
formerly Serb-held eastern Croatian areas into the Croatian legal
and constitutional system. The peaceful reintegration finished in
1998.
According to the statement, President Mesic agreed with Mandhyana
that international agreements, once signed, never lost their
value.
In Mesic's mind, the Erdut agreement would be in a position of
secondary importance when all its provisions were completely
transformed into laws.
Mesic supported the UN official's intention to organise a meeting
of young people of different ethnic origin on the occasion of the
anniversary of the signing of the said agreement.
Mandhyan announced that the UN liaison office in Zagreb would be
closed within one year.
Identical offices, set up during the deployment of UN observers in
the area of the former Yugoslavia, still exist in Sarajevo and
Belgrade, and all the three would discontiue their work in one year,
Mandhyan told Mesic.
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