CRO DELEGATION BELIEVES TRANSITIONAL SOLUTION REQUIRED FOR KOSOVO

( Editorial: --> 2750 ) STRASBOURG, Sept 24 (Hina) - A member of the Croatian delegation to the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, Snjezana Biga- Friganovic, supports the idea of a transitional solution for Kosovo in an effort to stop the violence and for political negotiations to begin. "At the moment, it is hard to imagine a new political status for Kosovo", said Biga-Friganovic while addressing the Assembly. She concluded that now the only thing to do is "to find a transitional solution to stop the further suffering of civilians". In a discussion that followed regarding the situation in Kosovo, the Croatian delegate highlighted that the Kosovo conflict is a repetition of the aggression against Croatia and Bosnia. "Vukovar, Sarajevo and Srebrenica are being repeated", added Biga- Friganovic. She said that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was responsible for the atrocities committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. More than 500 politicians and intellectuals have signed a petition demanding that Milosevic be extradited to the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague, she said. (Hina) jn sp/rml 241428 MET sep 98