ZAGREB, April 19 (Hina) - The U.N. Commission on Human Rights and its Special Rapporteur Jiri Dienstbier have completed their human rights monitoring mission in Croatia, it was decided at Wednesday's session of the Commission, which
adopted a so-called 'omnibus' resolution on the human rights situation in some parts of South-East Europe, Croatia's Foreign Ministry reported on Thursday.
ZAGREB, April 19 (Hina) - The U.N. Commission on Human Rights and
its Special Rapporteur Jiri Dienstbier have completed their human
rights monitoring mission in Croatia, it was decided at Wednesday's
session of the Commission, which adopted a so-called 'omnibus'
resolution on the human rights situation in some parts of South-
East Europe, Croatia's Foreign Ministry reported on Thursday. #L#
Croatia is mentioned only in the introductory part of this
document, and not in its operative part, except indirectly as a co-
signatory to the Dayton peace agreement. The document discontinues
the mandate of the Special Rapporteur and introduces the post of a
special representative, which will refer only to Yugoslavia and
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Croatian authorities have been encouraged to see that the process
of refugee returns and property restitution is made more
effective.
Human rights monitoring in Croatia by the U.N. started in 1992 and
in the beginning referred to, in reports by Special Rapporteurs
Tadeusz Mazowiecki (until 1995) and Elisabeth Rehn (until 1998), to
grave violations of human rights caused by the great-Serbian
aggression on the territory of the former Yugoslavia.
The Croatian Foreign Ministry welcomes in its statement the UN's
decision from Geneva to discontinue human rights monitoring in
Croatia and conveys Croatia's commitment to protecting human
rights.
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