PRESIDENT MESIC ATTENDS "PLITVICE '90" ROUND TABLE

PLITVICE LAKES, March 30 (Hina) - Speaking about political, military and other circumstances preceding the "Plitvice '90" police liberation operation whose tenth anniversary will be marked Saturday, Croatian President Stipe Mesic said everything (the 1990'2 war) was planned and prepared by (former Yugoslav President) Slobodan Milosevic and the then Yugoslavia. A round-table conference was held at the Plitvice Lakes national park Friday focusing on the operation. Blood was sought in Croatia and after Pakrac, blood was supposed to be shed in Plitvice, Mesic said. This was an extraordinary police operation and should be treated as such, he stressed. "Plitvice '90", as all other liberation operations, were planned ahead, Mesic said, stressing that today, ten years after, "big soldiers and anonymous people are appearing who are teaching us what happened in Plitvice in 1991, and speaking about how (former generals of the former Yugoslav Peoples' Army) Imra Agotic, Petar Stipetic nor Josip Boljkovac should not be attending the marking of the anniversary". The round-table was organised by the committee for marking this anniversary, appointed by President Mesic. The conference was attended by some two dozen people who directly participated in the operation and the then defence and interior ministers, Martin Spegelj and Josip Boljkovac. (hina) lml