BRIJUNI, Aug 10 (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman on Saturday received U.S. Assistant State Secretary John Kornblum who informed Tudjman about his talks at the Federation Forum in Sarajevo and with the Serbian President
Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade, a statement from the President's Office said.
BRIJUNI, Aug 10 (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman on
Saturday received U.S. Assistant State Secretary John Kornblum who
informed Tudjman about his talks at the Federation Forum in
Sarajevo and with the Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in
Belgrade, a statement from the President's Office said. #L#
Kornblum expressed regret that documents on the transferal of
authority to the Bosnian Federation organs had not been signed
because of the citicims by the Moslem side .
He described as positive the Croatian stance that the
transferal of authority to the Bosnian Federation from Bosnian and
Herzeg Bosnian organs should take place simultaneously.
It was important that the documents be drawn up before the
meeting in Geneva on Wednesday, the aim of which was to confirm the
decisiveness of the United States for the elections to pass
successfully and for the authorities to be established after the
elections, Kornblum said.
Tudjman said that Croatia fully supported the implementation
of the Washington and Dayton agreements, especially the agreement
on the Bosnian Federation, so that equality between the federal
partners, Moslems and Croats, could be established.
As regards relations with Yugoslavia, Tudjman said that
Croatia was ready for normalization of relations because it was a
prerequisite for the creation of the new international order.
Croatia was ready to do everything for the creation of
stability in the Balkans, but it did not belong to the geographic,
historical or civilization circle of the Balkans.
Handing over of the Prevlaka peninsula or exchange of
territory could not even be considered because Prevlaka was
Croatia's sovereign territory and exchange could not take place at
Bosnia's expense, Tudjman said, refuting speculations that his
talks with Milosevic had tackled Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Tudjman expressed satisfaction with the work of the
Transitional Administrator for the Croatian Danubian area Jacques
Klein and with the process of peaceful reintegration, and
reiterated Croatia's firm stance that the UNTAES mandate had to end
within a year because of the 80,000 displaced persons and the fact
that the Croatian government was financing the UN Transitional
Administration.
Present at the talks were also Croatian Premier Zlatko Matesa,
Foreign Minister Mate Granic and Interior Minister Ivan Jarnjak.
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