ZAGREB, Dec 11 (Hina) - The Croatian Party of Rights/Croatian Christian Democratic Union (HSP/HKDU) parliamentary bench does not accept the protocol on a temporary regime on the southern border between Croatia and Yugoslavia, signed
Tuesday, because it believes that Croatia has given up its sovereignty on and territorial integrity in Boka Kotorska Bay, as well as 1,800 kilometres of its sea.
ZAGREB, Dec 11 (Hina) - The Croatian Party of Rights/Croatian
Christian Democratic Union (HSP/HKDU) parliamentary bench does not
accept the protocol on a temporary regime on the southern border
between Croatia and Yugoslavia, signed Tuesday, because it
believes that Croatia has given up its sovereignty on and
territorial integrity in Boka Kotorska Bay, as well as 1,800
kilometres of its sea. #L#
HSP president Anto Djapic told a news conference on Wednesday that
he could not accept the government's claims that the sea border with
Yugoslavia had never been determined and defined. Croatia was
recognised within the borders of the former Socialist Republic of
Croatia, which also includes the sea border, he said.
Instead of acting under international law, Croatia is introducing
precedents in international relations and giving up that which is
positive and common under regulations and historical situations,
Djapic said.
"Prime Minister Ivica Racan is evidently trying to achieve any
possible success and at any cost, whether it be a craven
compromise," Djapic said. He warned that the regime was not a
temporary, but a permanent solution for demarcation on Prevlaka,
which will hamper the defining of an economic belt in the area and
make the issue of Croatia's territorial waters an issue of the
former Yugoslavia.
"With this craven compromise, the Social Democratic Party is
continuing its barren policy from Piran Bay to Prevlaka and
hampering future negotiations," the HSP president said.
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