RESOLUTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION ADOPTED IN GENEVA

GENEVA, March 9 (Hina) - The UN Commission for Human Rights members today accepted a joint resolution on Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and so-called Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at a several-day-long session, which is to finish tomorrow. This document, so far of the most comprehensive nature, condemns all human rights violations in former Yugoslavia, and includes three resolutions proposed by the United States, the Organization of Islamic Conference member-states and Albania. The resolution was adopted by 44 countries, while 7 countries voted against it and China abstained. The resolution supports the right of all the states that emerged from the former Yugoslavia, for the territorial integrity, sovereignty and political independence within their internationally recognized borders, and it points out the necessity of the mutual recognition. The resolution also stresses the need of accepting the Contact Group's peace plan by the Bosnian Serbs. Furthermore, the resolution condemns the continuation of ethnic cleansing, genocide, violence and harassment as well as all other ways of violating the human rights, and it clearly emphasizes the responsibility of Serbia's and Montenegro's authorities as well as of Bosnian and Croatian Serbs. The resolution assesses positively the Croatian and Bosnian governments' efforts to promote the human rights protection. But, in the document the Croatian government has been asked to prevent arbitrariness in judiciary, which has been warned of in the latest report by the special rapporteur Tadeus Mazowiecki (concerning the autonomy of judiciary, the conduct toward non-governmental organizations and forceful evictions). The resolution condemns the continuation of the ethnic cleansing and lawlessness in the Croatian areas now under Serb control. The resolution's parts tackling the situation in UNPAs of Croatia, use the term "occupation". For the first time the document warns of the jeopardy in which the Croatian minority live in Serbia and Montenegro. The resolution assesses positively the relations between Croats and Moslems in the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina established by the Washington Accords. It supports strongly the continuation of the search for the missing and detained persons. Saying that some of the Croatian media foster the nationalistic conduct toward minorities, the resolution strongly condemns the systematic nationalistic editorial policy in most of the Serbian and Montenegrin media which boost intolerance, crime and violence. (hina) jn rv mms 091910 MET mar 95