TURKISH PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION VISITS CROATIA

ZAGREB, Feb 9 (Hina) - Turkey respected Croatia's decision to terminate the UNPROFOR current mandate, because it held that the UNPROFOR mission had been wrongly defined both in Croatia and in Bosnia, the chief of a Turkish parliamentary delegation, Kemal Mimaroglu, said today after the talks with Croatian Parliament's leaders. The Turkish delegation was paying a two-day visit to Croatia. Mimaroglu believed that the mission of the UN forces in Croatia and Bosnia should be peacemaking rather than peacekeeping. The Turkish delegation, called " A Special Study Group for Bosnia-Herzegovina", was received by the Croatian Parliament's Speaker, Nedjeljko Mihanovic, this morning. Afterwards the Turkish delegates met Zarko Domljan, the head of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, and other members of the Committee. The Study Group which included seven parliamentary members and three officials at the Turkish Assembly and three senior officials of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, are to depart for Sarajevo and Zenica from Croatia. The aim of our visit was to gain an insight in the situation on the ground and show that Turkey was trying to contribute to finding peaceful and just settlement to the crisis in the area, Mimaroglu said at a joint press conference he held with Domljan after one-hour talks. Domljan stressed that Milosevic's conduct had been crucial for the resolution of the crisis in the former Yugoslavia from the very beginning and said the war would cease when Serbia relinquished its aggressive and expansionist policies. He added that such policies must be defeated by either military or political means. By cancelling the UNPROFOR mandate Croatia wanted to "exert pressure on rebel Serbs to abandon aggression and to recognize Croatia as their State," Domljan said. We asked the international community to join us in the pressure on the Serb insurgents, he said. (hina) jn mms 092201 MET feb 95