ZAGREB, Feb 29 (Hina) - The mandate of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to Croatia will most probably be protracted until the end of the year, as president of the Croatian National Parliament
Zlatko Tomcic announced Tuesday the OSCE and Croatia were trying to do.
ZAGREB, Feb 29 (Hina) - The mandate of the Organisation for Security
and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to Croatia will most
probably be protracted until the end of the year, as president of
the Croatian National Parliament Zlatko Tomcic announced Tuesday
the OSCE and Croatia were trying to do. #L#
In a statement to the press following a meeting with OSCE Mission
chief Bernard Poncet Tuesday, Tomcic said he had "expressed wish
and hope that an agreement on the extension of the mission until the
end of the year between the OSCE and Croatian Government could be
reached."
"This is a dual effort to extend the OSCE's mandate until the end of
the year, as we have assessed that the role of the OSCE Mission is
useful in this phase of changes in the Republic of Croatia," he
stressed.
Representatives of the OSCE Mission which has been present in
Croatia for three and a half years, have been advocating an
extention of the mandate, but the problem lay in the former Croatian
Government which had requested that the mandate of such a Mission be
terminated, that the number of its members be drastically reduced
and that fields and priorities of its actions in Croatia be changed,
as voiced by former Prime Minister Zlatko Matesa during last
November's OSCE summit in Istanbul.
... TO BE CONTINUED ...
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