$ SIMONOVIC SAYS ZAGREB, Jan 11 (Hina) - "Croatia's stance that the Prevlaka peninsula is an integral part of its territory, is very firm...and there will be no territorial exchanges or border changes", first aide to Croatian Foreign
Minister, Ivan Simonovic, said in last night's Croatian television late news broadcast 'Slikom na sliku'.
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ZAGREB, Jan 11 (Hina) - "Croatia's stance that the Prevlaka
peninsula is an integral part of its territory, is very firm...and
there will be no territorial exchanges or border changes", first
aide to Croatian Foreign Minister, Ivan Simonovic, said in last
night's Croatian television late news broadcast 'Slikom na
sliku'.#L#
Commenting on yesterday's visit of Croatia's Foreign Minister
Mate Granic to Belgrade, Simonovic said Croatia was ready to
negotiate about the demilitarization of Prevlaka and even of a
wider area.
'This is something we are ready to cooperate in, but we will
not jepardise Croatia's borders', he said.
U.N. military observers could see for themselves that Croatia
had no aggressive intentions and did not want to use the Prevlaka
peninsula for military purposes.
'In the discussion on the return of refugees, we insisted on
principles of reciprocity', Simonovic said. 'The issues that are
being discussed do not relate only, as statements by Yugoslav
authorities say, to the property of the Croatian citizens of Serb
nationality, but also to the question of property of Croats from
Vojvodina and other parts of Yugoslavia (Serbia/Montenegro) as well
as to the question of reciprocity in, say, agreements on the
protection of human and minority rights'.
The Croatian delegation at Belgrade talks had also demanded,
as a precondition of normalisation process, more information on
missing persons.
"I think that a meeting on that issue would take place very
soon, perhaps even next week", Simonovic said.
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