NEW YORK, Sept 6 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic and the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Tuesday evening held talks on efforts aimed at finding a permanent solution to the southernmost Croatian area - the peninsula of
Prevlaka - which borders with the Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro as well as on the issue of the succession to the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). "I have notified the Secretary General that Croatia is intending to build a tourist settlement on the cape of Ostro," Mesic said. The cape of Ostro is the northern horn of Boka Kotorska - the bay through whose entrance a border-line between Croatia and Yugoslavia passes. Mesic added that the incumbent Montenegrin leadership had similar plans about attracting holiday-makers on the nearby island of Mamula. "This means that we can together seek investors in the world and thus this mater, whic
NEW YORK, Sept 6 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic and the
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Tuesday evening held talks on
efforts aimed at finding a permanent solution to the southernmost
Croatian area - the peninsula of Prevlaka - which borders with the
Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro as well as on the issue of the
succession to the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
(SFRY).
"I have notified the Secretary General that Croatia is intending to
build a tourist settlement on the cape of Ostro," Mesic said. The
cape of Ostro is the northern horn of Boka Kotorska - the bay through
whose entrance a border-line between Croatia and Yugoslavia
passes.
Mesic added that the incumbent Montenegrin leadership had similar
plans about attracting holiday-makers on the nearby island of
Mamula.
"This means that we can together seek investors in the world and
thus this mater, which is currently a contentious issues, can
become the matter on which we work together," Croatian President
said.
The peninsula of Prevlaka has become a contentious issue as the
Federal Republic if Yugoslavia (FRY) has territorial claims to this
area, under the pretext of security reasons.
Croatia does not consent to any change of its internationally
recognised border, and Zagreb's proposals that the security of the
entire area can be ensured by the permanent demilitarisation, has
never meet with any positive response from the Serb-led Yugoslav
federal authorities.
Since the withdrawal of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) in 1992,
the UN mission - UNMOP - has been engaged at Prevlaka.
Asked how Annan responded to Croatian and Montenegrin ideas,
considering the fact that Prevlaka is under the UN mandate, Mesic
said the fact that UN Secretary General asked Croatia and
Montenegro to forward him proposals, reflected his interest.
Under a regular procedure, Annan is expected to brief the Security
Council about this plan.
The UN Secretary General is a kind of mediator between different
ideas given by UN member-states and the Security Council and in that
process he does not make decisions but presents proposals and
expounds his stand, said Croatian Ambassador to the UN, Ivan
Simonovic.
The Mesic-Annan talks focused also on the succession and Mesic
reiterated the stand that all countries-successors to the former
Yugoslavia, including the FRY, had to pass through the equal
process in its admission to the United Nations.
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