NEW YORK, March 4 (Hina) - In its letter to the United Nations Security Council on Friday, Croatia once again expressed its readiness to fulfil its obligations from the seven and a half years old Tudjman-Cosic agreement on the
integral solution of the security of Dubrovnik and Boka Kotorska. In Croatia's opinion, the newest statements about territorial pretensions of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia over Croatian peninsula of Prevlaka are groundless and unacceptable. In the letter addressed to the chairman of the Council, Bangladesh Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, Croatian permanent representative with the United Nations in New York Ivan Simonovic referred to another letter of FRY Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic who claimed that Prevlaka was a part of the FRY territory. "The territorial pretensions of FRY over Croatian peninsula of Prevlaka remain groundless", Simonovic wrote. He pointed to the fact t
NEW YORK, March 4 (Hina) - In its letter to the United Nations
Security Council on Friday, Croatia once again expressed its
readiness to fulfil its obligations from the seven and a half years
old Tudjman-Cosic agreement on the integral solution of the
security of Dubrovnik and Boka Kotorska.
In Croatia's opinion, the newest statements about territorial
pretensions of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia over Croatian
peninsula of Prevlaka are groundless and unacceptable.
In the letter addressed to the chairman of the Council, Bangladesh
Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, Croatian permanent representative
with the United Nations in New York Ivan Simonovic referred to
another letter of FRY Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic who claimed
that Prevlaka was a part of the FRY territory.
"The territorial pretensions of FRY over Croatian peninsula of
Prevlaka remain groundless", Simonovic wrote. He pointed to the
fact that Jovanovic was using "recently fabricated maps" and
selective and out of context stated parts of certain regulations of
the former Yugoslavia. Belgrade authorities obviously wish to
cause a confusion, Simonovic assessed.
Simonovic pointed to the well-known map which affirm where the
international border between Croatia and Montenegro was extended,
and which was signed on September 30, 1992 by Yugoslav Prime
Minister Milan Panic and Joint Chief-of-Staff of the Yugoslav Army
Zivota Panic. About a year ago, Yugoslav authorities requested a
clear reconfirmation of the document. They received the
reconfirmation, however, they failed to express their standpoint
on the issue.
The Croatian permanent representative to the United Nations also
pointed to the fact that the Presidency of the former Yugoslavia on
December 30, 1991 concluded that the Prevlaka Peninsula was a part
of Croatia, and called for "a prior adjustment of the
administrative border between the Republic (Croatia) and
Montenegro to make Prevlaka an integral part of Montenegro" in case
of Croatia's independence.
Croatia proposed a permanent solution for the security issue of
Prevlaka including the demilitarisation, Simonovic stressed and
called on the Yugoslav authorities to act in line with a decision of
the international convention on the former Yugoslavia on the
existing borders between the two countries.
(hina) it