BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH

HINA Zagreb, January 7, 1999+CROATIAN AMBASSADOR SENDS LETTER ON PREVLAKA TO SECURITY COUNCIL+NEW YORK, Jan 7 (Hina) - The U.N. Security Council should clearly +and unequivocally state that Prevlaka (Croatia's southernmost +peninsula) is an integral part of the Republic of Croatia, and that +it shall not tolerate territorial pretensions and the disrespect of +international borders, Croatia's Ambassador at the U.N., Ivan +Simonovic, said in New York on Thursday.+ Simonovic said this in a letter sent to the Security Council +President Celso Amorim, ahead of a discussion on the situation in +Prevlaka and the mandate of the UN Mission of Observers in Prevlaka, +expected to take place next week.+ Croatia believes that Yugoslav authorities should be prevented in +using the UNMOP for stalling the full integration of the area into +Croatia's state, legal and territorial framework.+ "Clearly,