DUBROVNIK, Apr 27 (Hina) - Croatian Interior Minister Ivan Penic and associates on Tuesday visited southern-most Croatia. They held talks with Dubrovnik-Neretva County police heads in Dubrovnik, the head of the United Nations Mission
of Observers on Prevlaka, Lt. Gen. Graene Williams, in Cavtat, and also visited Konfin, a Croatian border crossing with the Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro. Penic assessed the talks with Williams as useful. It was concluded Croatia's behaviour on Prevlaka, its southern-most tip, bordering with Montenegro, was at a very high level, even when the Yugoslav army recently entered the "yellow", demilitarised zone on the peninsula. "We were not surprised at all by the Yugoslav army's act, because we expected it," Penic said. He was satisfied with the security situation on the Croatian-Montenegrin border, and added it must stay so even after the end of the UN Mission
DUBROVNIK, Apr 27 (Hina) - Croatian Interior Minister Ivan Penic
and associates on Tuesday visited southern-most Croatia.
They held talks with Dubrovnik-Neretva County police heads in
Dubrovnik, the head of the United Nations Mission of Observers on
Prevlaka, Lt. Gen. Graene Williams, in Cavtat, and also visited
Konfin, a Croatian border crossing with the Yugoslav Republic of
Montenegro.
Penic assessed the talks with Williams as useful. It was concluded
Croatia's behaviour on Prevlaka, its southern-most tip, bordering
with Montenegro, was at a very high level, even when the Yugoslav
army recently entered the "yellow", demilitarised zone on the
peninsula.
"We were not surprised at all by the Yugoslav army's act, because we
expected it," Penic said.
He was satisfied with the security situation on the Croatian-
Montenegrin border, and added it must stay so even after the end of
the UN Mission's mandate on Prevlaka.
Penic pointed out it was important that a border crossing had been
opened towards Montenegro, primarily for the delivery of
humanitarian relief for 70,000 Kosovo refugees there.
Speaking about summer fires in southern Croatia, Penic said both
the Dubrovnik-Neretva County police and the whole Croatia were this
year much more prepared to cope with the fires than last summer.
"We will get a new 'canadair' in June, purchased for US$22 million
via a World Bank loan, and we should also hire two such planes
costing a million dollars. We have also secured US$3 million to
purchase spare parts for all six 'canadairs'," Penic said, adding
two will be stationed at the Dubrovnik airport.
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