CROATIA FULLY SUPPORTS PEACE EFFORTS IN BOSNIA - GRANIC

LONDON, Dec 4 (Hina) - Foreign Minister Mate Granic said on Wednesday that Croatia was willing to fully cooperate in efforts aimed at stabilizing the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Addressing a two-day conference on Bosnia-Herzegovina in London, Granic said that the implementation of the peace agreement still faced a lack of cooperation and political adaptability and deliberate non-compliance with time limits. Therefore, a coordinated, uncompromising, equal and impartial involvement of the international community in the establishment of joint institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina is now more necessary than ever before, he stressed. Granic said that Croatia would continue to fully support a joint course of action envisaged by the peace consolidation programme. However, Croatia cannot accept the idea of turning the consolidation process in Bosnia-Herzegovina into a forced political association of signatory states to the Dayton-Paris agreement for the sake of certain initiatives for a future stabilization of this part of Europe, Granic warned. Instead, there are other stabilization mechanisms such as the normalization of relations between government institutions and arms control, he added. Granic said that Croatia would continue to help in the process of unification of the political, military and administrative institutions of Bosnian Croats and Moslems in order to strengthen the Croat-Moslem Federation. Granic emphasized that Croatia saw the Federation as an irreplaceable pillar of Bosnia-Herzegovina's integrity. (hina) vm 041956 MET dec 96