GOVT. ADOPTS CONCLUSIONS ON RELATIONS WITH YUGOSLAVIA

ZAGREB, Oct 12 (Hina) - The Croatian government on Thursday adopted a document on the situation in neighbouring post-election Yugoslavia and the prospects of Croatia-Yugoslavia relations. The document contains a preamble and 11 conclusions.#L# The conclusions focus on the succession to the former Yugoslav federation, the importance of applying uniform and not dual measures on the part of the international community, and urge a rigorous position regarding war criminals, and Yugoslavia's new leadership to take a position on former president Slobodan Milosevic's aggression policy. The government points to the need of shedding light, as soon as possible, on the fate of missing and detained Croatians, insists on a strict protection of minority rights, and persists on the implementation of a refugee and displaced person return programme, the need of regulating property-rights relations, and the restitution of cultural and other goods stolen during last decade's Serb aggression. The government points to the inviolability of the state border and says it is willing to expedite the solving of all open issues, especially that of Prevlaka, Croatia's southern-most tip which borders with the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro. As regards Yugoslavia's relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina, the government urges Yugoslavia, as a signatory to the Dayton peace agreement, to work on its implementation. Foreign Minister Tonino Picula said the government conclusions were an expression of the need to give a political answer to the course of events in the immediate neighbourhood. He said the cultivation of good neighbourly relations with all countries was Croatia's foreign policy priority, but added the implementation of an agreement on the normalisation of Croatia- Yugoslavia relations was going to be possible only after democratic process in Yugoslavia progressed. (hina) ha