STABILITY PACT'S TASK FORCE FOR SECURITY ISSUES ENDS OSLO SESSION

OSLO, Oct 14 (Hina) - The first session held by the Stabilisation Pact for Southeast Europe's Task Force for security issues yielded no crucial results, but it stressed the necessity for more effective implementation of already established security principles, said an Assistant to Croatia's Foreign Minister, Vladimir Drobnjak, after the end of the session in Oslo on Thursday. The session ended with an informal document, Conclusions made by the chairman, which cites topics of this two-day meeting, said Drobnjak who is Croatia's national coordinator of the Stability Pact. No concrete obligations have been given to countries- participants. Croatia's proposal for the set-up of a de-mining centre, situated at the Adriatic, was given strong political support, he added. During the Oslo session, sub-task forces were constituted for judiciary and interior affairs as well as for military issues and security. The Croatian diplomat announced that first concrete assessments of the implementation of the Stability Pact can be expected at the OSCE summit in Istanbul, scheduled for the mid-November, after all three Task Forces of the Pact hold their inaugural sessions. The next session of the Task Force for security issues is due to be at the beginning of February in Sarajevo, because Bosnia- Herzegovina takes the rotating six-month-long chairmanship over this task force as of 1 January 2000. (hina) jn ms