CRO REP AT UN ON SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON KOSOVO

NEW YORK, June 11 (Hina) - Croatia hopes the United Nations Security Council resolution on Kosovo will mark the end of the Great Serbia policy march which began a decade ago with the war in Slovenia and continued with aggressions on Croatia and Bosnia, the charge d'affaires of Croatia's permanent mission to the UN, Jelena Grcic- Polic, told a Security Council session in New York on Thursday. Grcic-Polic advocated a full implementation of Security Council conclusions which she said was decisive for the success of the political process expected to provide security and other conditions. The Croatian official reminded that Croatia had supported all international community efforts and activities in relation to the Kosovo crisis, while simultaneously trying to maintain the course of normalisation of relations with Yugoslavia. Grcic-Polic assessed the establishment of peace, stability, and security was in great measure dependant on the economic revival and development of not only Kosovo and Yugoslavia, but of the entire south-eastern Europe region. The direct economic damage Croatia has suffered as a result of the Kosovo conflict has reached US$2.5 billion, while the total damage exceeds US$5 billion, she said. The international community should give stronger support to security and political and economic stability in the entire region and open the path to integration with European institutions to the countries which want it, Grcic-Polic concluded. (hina) ha