ZAGREB, Dec 5 (Hina) - Croatia should be on the Prevlaka peninsula on December 15, Prime Minister Ivica Racan said today. The government on Thursday adopted a draft protocol on a temporary regime on the south border between Croatia
and Yugoslavia, and the protocol is expected to be signed on December 10.
ZAGREB, Dec 5 (Hina) - Croatia should be on the Prevlaka peninsula
on December 15, Prime Minister Ivica Racan said today. The
government on Thursday adopted a draft protocol on a temporary
regime on the south border between Croatia and Yugoslavia, and the
protocol is expected to be signed on December 10. #L#
The government expects the other side to accept the protocol and
sign it on Tuesday, Racan told reporters in the government
building, but refused to say the place or time of the signing.
Racan did not speak about the protocol itself because, as he
explained, it had been agreed with the other side that it should not
be made public until the signing.
Racan only said that the protocol regulated a temporary regime,
determined jurisdictions and authorities on that part of the
border, but did not solve the border issue, which has been left for
the second phase and to be solved with the cooperation of the
neighbours.
Racan announced that Croatian and Yugoslav foreign ministers would
issue a statement at the margins of tomorrow's OSCE conference in
Portugal about the solving of the Prevlaka issue. The statement
will become a UN document, Racan said.
The mandate of the UN observers' mission at Prevlaka ends on
December 5.
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