INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES REPORT ON MEETING WITH TUDJMAN

( Editorial: --> 4345 ) ZAGREB, Feb 24 (Hina) - On Tuesday, after their meeting with President Tudjman, representatives of the international community in BH,Jacques Paul Klein, Deputy High Representative, Elisabeth Rehn, UN Undersecretary, and Robert Berry, head of the OCE mission in BH, convened a press briefing at the US embassy, where they reported on their talks with the President. Eliabeth Rehn pointed out that Federation BH should have already seen the introduction of an ethnically mixed police force. "Unfortunatelly, we are facing problems, especially in Croat areas in western Herzegovina and in Tomislavgrad, where the police still uses absolutely unacceptable insignia", said Rehn. She added the international community was also pressurizing the Bosniacs in areas where they were not meeting their obligations. Speaking about the return of refugees, Elisabeth Rehn stressed she was "happy that President Tudjman told us he was taking those problems very seriously". Klein said that BH could not function without the Croat population and that he took to heart the Croat's grievances regarding their traditions,religion, language and culture. However, stressed Klein, the international community needs a Croat leadership that will co-operate with it in a constructive manner. For the past four months I have been trying to open the Mostar airpport for traffic, but the Croat leadership is not ready for co- operation and a compromise, contrary to the interests of the Croat population, the economy and pilgrims, stressed Klein. He expresed hope that the President would help in resolution of those problems. Head of the OSCE mission Robert Barry said that as far as he was concerned, "the main problem is that it has not been possible to implement the results of the municipal election of 1997". He stressed that the Dayton Accords could not be fully implemented without the implementation of the election results. (Hina) 242200 MET feb 98