ZUZUL ON U.N. MANDATE IN CROATIA

ZAGREB, Jan 3 (Hina) - Croatia's ambassador to the UN in Geneva and President Tudjman's special envoy, Miomir Zuzul, yesterday said Croatia would extend UNPROFOR's mandate only if it implemented all UN Security Council resolutions. Speaking in a Croatian television news programme late last night, Zuzul said UNPROFOR could not contribute to a final settlement without significant changes in the contents of its mandate and the ways of implementing it. He described the economic agreement between the Croatian government and local Serb authorities in occupied areas as a first but insufficient step towards resolving the crisis. But Zuzul said if Croatia were given firm guarantees, if traffic communications through Serb-held areas started being restored, if the Adriatic oil pipeline opened and if UNPROFOR started bringing life back to normal there, it would be couterproductive for Croatia to insist on terminating the UN mandate. "But I say once again there's too little time left for us to be optimistic that this could happen," Zuzul stressed. Asked when Croatia could expect to be recognized within its internationally accepted borders by the Yugoslav federation of Serbia and Montenegro, Zuzul said this would happen when they realized that the concept of a greater Serbia was impossible to realize at Croatia's expense. (hina) vm 031129 MET jan 95