PICULA: RESOLVE SHOULD BE SHOWN IN ANTI-TERRORIST FIGHT

DUBROVNIK, Oct 8 (Hina) - Croatia's Foreign Minister Tonino Picula on Sunday said strikes against terrorist strongholds in Afghanistan were expected and that one should show determination in the fight against terrorism. "We need a comprehensive anti-terrorist strategy, and (Sunday's) military strikes were this time definitely necessary," Picula said at a news conference in Dubrovnik. After almost one month since terrorist attacks in the United States, this response was expected. According to available information, the targets of the strikes were primarily military facilities in Afghanistan, he said. Bids to uproot all forms of terrorism should be as resolute as today's operation of the United States and Great Britain in Afghanistan. One should also be resolved to find ways to uproot terrorism as a phenomenon, the Croatian official added. A contribution to such bids is an international conference on human rights and democratisation which will be held in Dubrovnik, under the auspices of the United Nations, Picula said last night ahead of the start of the three-day international conference, set for Monday. He described the conference as a contribution of Croatia, which hosts this event, to attempts to properly define relations in the international community. (hina) ms