MAZOWIECKI CRITICISES INT COMMUNITY'S POLICY TOWARDS KOSOVO & BH

( Editorial: --> 9597 ) BANJA LUKA, Mar 14 (Hina) - Tadeusz Mazowiecki, former United Nations special rapporteur for human rights for the territory of the former Yugoslavia, Saturday criticised the international community's policy towards Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Mazowiecki is taking part in a solidarity conference in Banja Luka, Bosnian Serb entity, organised by the European Bishops' Conference's Justitia et Pax Commission. The dramatic events in Kosovo pose the question whether Europe and the world learned something from the Bosnian crisis, Mazowiecki said. He pointed out to the danger of the escalating Kosovo conflict and criticised the international community for once again not having taken any measures. Mazowiecki believed Europe had made a big mistake in failing to establish a joint policy towards Bosnia-Herzegovina. If there is indifference to the situation in the Balkans it will be impossible to overcome the divide between western and eastern Europe, he concluded. (hina) ha jn 141625 MET mar 98