NEW YORK, Sept 25 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic on Saturday spoke at the 54th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Croatia's standpoints about most important regional and international issues.
Granic believes that the circle of aggression and violence is closed because the crisis which started in Yugoslavia ten years ago is back at the beginning. He called on the international community to continue what it was started by a military operation against the regime of Slobodan Milosevic by appropriate political solutions. The Croatian Foreign Minister stressed that Belgrade still refused to accept internationally recognised Croatian borders in Prevlaka. Granic added that the succession of Yugoslavia was still unsolved issue which was an obstacle to the normalisation of the situation in the region and relations between neighbouring countries. Granic reiterated that Cr
NEW YORK, Sept 25 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic on
Saturday spoke at the 54th session of the United Nations General
Assembly in New York on Croatia's standpoints about most important
regional and international issues.
Granic believes that the circle of aggression and violence is
closed because the crisis which started in Yugoslavia ten years ago
is back at the beginning. He called on the international community
to continue what it was started by a military operation against the
regime of Slobodan Milosevic by appropriate political solutions.
The Croatian Foreign Minister stressed that Belgrade still refused
to accept internationally recognised Croatian borders in Prevlaka.
Granic added that the succession of Yugoslavia was still unsolved
issue which was an obstacle to the normalisation of the situation in
the region and relations between neighbouring countries.
Granic reiterated that Croatia supported the implementation of the
Dayton Agreement and asked for the protection of rights for Bosnian
Croats as one of the three constituent nations in Bosnia-
Herzegovina.
He said that Croatia saw the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe as
a form of concrete cooperation.
The Croatian Foreign Minister also pointed to intensive relations
between Croatia and the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He stressed that Croatia was not
satisfied adding that indictments so far did not reflect the real
nature and scope of committed war crimes. He also objected the slow
paste of court proceedings. As an example, Granic said that so far
nobody had been accused of war crimes against Croats in Bosnia-
Herzegovina, nor had anyone been convicted for war crimes committed
during the Serb aggression in Croatia.
Minister Granic stressed that stabile economic and social
development was of particular importance to Croatia. He said that
Croatia ratified an international convention on antipersonnel
mines and hosted a regional conference on mine removal.
On behalf of Croatia, Granic expressed a wish to be one of those
countries which would, in cooperation with the UNESCO and the
United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, apply world's
standards and programmes of the protection and promotion of human
rights. Croatia supports the establishment of a permanent
international court, for it is a founder of the universal
protection of human rights, Granic said.
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