INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SYMPOSIUM FINISHES IN SPLIT

SPLIT, April 9 (Hina) - An international political two-day symposium with the theme "Just Peace and Solidarity Among Victims of the Greater Serbia's Aggression - a Source of Stability and Future of the Balkans and Europe" finished last night in Split, southern Croatian port. The Split symposium attracting about 50 participants, out of whom 20 arrived from abroad, was organized by the Croatian Democratic Union and German Giessen University's institute for Catholic theology, and Bonn-based Catholic society of "Konrad Adenaur Stiftung". Although during the two-day work all participants were unanimous in expressing the position that Serbia was the aggressor on countries which emerged after the collapse of the former Yugoslavia in the area, and that the joint resistance of the endangered peoples and citizens, not merely in Croatia and Bosnia- Herzegovina, was necessary for the defeat of Serbia's imperialistic policies, they could not agree on a proposed Declaration of the symposium last night. The Declaration was not adopted because of disagreement on some terms and words in the document. Foreign participants held that it was enough to mention just once the term Greater Serbia's aggression in the Declaration and that the term 'non-Serb' peoples should be avoided, believing that in Bosnia-Herzegovina not only Croats and Bosniacs (Moslems) but also Serbs who oppose the war option were jeopardized and that the Bosnian Federation was envisaged as the State of all three peoples. The Declaration of the Split political symposium is likely to be finalized by the inner circle of the organizing committee and be issued at a press conference in Zagreb on Monday. (hina) mms 091233 MET apr 95