OSCE INVITATION TO BRAC SEMINAR FULL OF MISTAKES - FOREIGN MINISTR

MINISTR $ Y STATEMENT ZAGREB, 16 April (Hina) - The head of the Croatian Foreign Ministry Department for multilateral politics, Mladen Andrlic, yesterday sent a letter to the director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), ambassador Audrey Glover, protesting about factual and other mistakes in her letter to Foreign Minister Mate Granic, inviting him to take part in a seminar entitled 'Conflict in Former Yugoslavia and Role of Mass Media', a Foreign Ministry statement said yesterday. #L# Glover invited Granic to take part in the seminar that is to be held in the organisation of the OSCE Office for Human Rights, the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights and the Croatian Helsinki Committee on 1 and 2 May 1996 on the Croatian island of Brac, the statement said. It was unacceptable for Croatia as a sovereign state and a full OSCE member to be called a 'region' (the same as other full members of the OSCE, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia). An especially worrying part of the letter was the one calling on the usage of a non-existent 'south-slavic language', as Croatia accepted the organisation of such a meeting on its territory only on condition that it be held in the Croatian language, along with translations to official U.N. languages or, if necessary, other foreign languages, Andrlic said in the letter, pointing to a number of other mistakes relating to information on the seminar. The Foreign Ministry could not consider the invitation to the seminar until necessary corrections of the letter were made, the statement said. (hina) rm mm 161039 MET apr 96