BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3571

HR-MISSIONS-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3571 BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3571HINA Zagreb 22 March 2000OSCE MISSION NEEDED UNTIL END OF 2000 AS WITNESS OF PROGRESSVIENNA, March 22 (Hina) - Croatia needs a credible witness of the progress it achieved, so the mandate of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will be protracted until the end of this year, Croatian Foreign Minister Tonino Picula said in Vienna on Wednesday after talks with OSCE chairwoman and Austria's Foreign Minister Benito Ferrero Waldner. "We can hope that problems will be removed by the end of the year, including the reasons behind an extension of the OSCE Mission mandate next year," Picula said. Picula will on Thursday present the new reference points of Croatia's foreign policy before the OSCE Permanent Council. OSCE chairwoman Waldner confirmed the Mission's mandate in Croatia would be extended until the end of the year, because the OSCE held it could help considerably