ZAGREB, Dec 16 (Hina) - The United States deplores Croatian +President Franjo Tudjman's remarks, made during his speech at the +December 14 opening of a veterans' military school in Zagreb, in +which he declared that he had recently
recommended the use of force +against NATO troops on the Bosnian border and that this threat +forced Stabilisation Force to change its plans, State Department's +Deputy Spokesman James Foley said on Wednesday.+ "Such statements concerning our peacekeeping forces are +unacceptable in any form and under any circumstances", Foley said +in a statement released on Wednesday by the US Embassy in Zagreb.+ The United States also rejects President Tudjman's use of the +International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) +as a scare tactic for partisan political ends, the statement read.+ +(hina) mm rml +
ZAGREB, Dec 16 (Hina) - The United States deplores Croatian
President Franjo Tudjman's remarks, made during his speech at the
December 14 opening of a veterans' military school in Zagreb, in
which he declared that he had recently recommended the use of force
against NATO troops on the Bosnian border and that this threat
forced Stabilisation Force to change its plans, State Department's
Deputy Spokesman James Foley said on Wednesday.
"Such statements concerning our peacekeeping forces are
unacceptable in any form and under any circumstances", Foley said
in a statement released on Wednesday by the US Embassy in Zagreb.
The United States also rejects President Tudjman's use of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
as a scare tactic for partisan political ends, the statement read.
(hina) mm rml