NEW YORK, Jan 6 (Hina) - United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on Friday morning received a letter of the Croatian Foreign Minister Tonino Picula in which, on the occasion of Annan's report on the situation in Prevlaka, Picula
reiterated Croatia's standpoint on the solving of the issue. Croatia's permanent representative with the United Nations, Ivan Simonovic, expressed hope that Zagreb and Belgrade would resume the negotiations in the near future. Croatia agrees to the extention of a mandate to another six months, however, it demands constructive negotiations and a rapid resolution of the Prevlaka issue, Simonovic said. He also expressed hope that a negotiating team of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia would include representatives of Montenegro who were excluded from the negotiations by Milosevic's regime after Milo Djukanovic's election as the President of the smaller republic in the
NEW YORK, Jan 6 (Hina) - United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan
on Friday morning received a letter of the Croatian Foreign
Minister Tonino Picula in which, on the occasion of Annan's report
on the situation in Prevlaka, Picula reiterated Croatia's
standpoint on the solving of the issue.
Croatia's permanent representative with the United Nations, Ivan
Simonovic, expressed hope that Zagreb and Belgrade would resume the
negotiations in the near future.
Croatia agrees to the extention of a mandate to another six months,
however, it demands constructive negotiations and a rapid
resolution of the Prevlaka issue, Simonovic said.
He also expressed hope that a negotiating team of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia would include representatives of Montenegro
who were excluded from the negotiations by Milosevic's regime after
Milo Djukanovic's election as the President of the smaller republic
in the federation.
Simonovic positively assessed standpoints Yugoslav Prime Minister
Zoran Zizic had expressed in his letter to the Security Council.
This is the first time that the Prevlaka issue is not mentioned as a
territorial issue, but it is treated as an issue inherited from the
old Yugoslav authorities, Simonovic stressed.
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