CRO AMBASS. TO UN SPEAKS ABOUT LATEST SECURITY COUNCIL STATEMENT

NEW YORK, Nov 7 (Hina) - The importance of the latest United Nations Security Council presidential statement on eastern Croatia lies in its stress on the importance of economic revival and development for the return of displaced persons, refugees, and exiled persons, Croatia's Ambassador to the UN Ivan Simonovic said on Friday. The international community should engage as much as possible in the upcoming conference on the reconstruction and development of Croatia, Simonovic said in New York. He was speaking following the Security Council's statement on the conclusion of the UN police support group mandate in the Danube River region of eastern Croatia. Simonovic said the latest statement was the last by the Security Council on the Danubian region. The Mission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which last month took over UN's mandate in the region, will report to the UN only if necessary. Simonovic said the fact that the UN mandate was completed urged the Security Council to warn about some remaining problems. Warnings about ethnically motivated incidents, the continued departure of Serbs from the area, and the problems of the joint council of Serb majority municipalities should be taken as constructive and well-intentioned, the Ambassador concluded. (hina) ha