STOLTENBERG ON CONTACTS WITH KNIN FOLLOWING UNSC RESOLUTION

ZAGREB, Apr 6 (Hina) - Co-chairman of the Peace Conference on Former Yugoslavia, Thorvald Stoltenberg, appeared in a Croatian TV current affairs show last night. He talked about consultations with Croatian Government and Knin Serb representatives on the implementation of UNSC Resolution 981. Asked if Knin Serbs would allow the deployment of observers along the Croatian borders, Stoltenberg said it would be determined during consultations. But there were already some observers at the borders, whose task was to report on movements in line with Security Council instructions and the 1992 peace-keeping agreement, he pointed out. As for panels bearing the inscription 'UNCRO', they would be displayed at all important points in the occupied Croatian areas, Stoltenberg said. It was a matter for the UN forces to decide where they would put up their notices and was not subject to negotiations, he specified. According to Stoltenberg, Knin Serbs did not have to agree to every aspect of the implementation of the new Resolution and they would not be asked to sign any new agreement. The Resolution was passed by the Security Council and that's that, Stoltenberg said. Asked if Serbian President Milosevic was closer to recognising Croatia and/or Bosnia-Herzegovina, Stoltenberg said he could not say any more than Milosevic already had - namely, that he would start with recognising Bosnia-Herzegovina, but on the condition that sanctions be lifted and not only suspended. (hina) mm as 061126 MET apr 95