CROATIA ACTS IN SELF-DEFENCE

THE HAGUE, May 3 (Hina) - "The action of Croatia (in Western Slavonia) is an action in self-defence and exercise of sovereignty over the whole of its territory," the director general of the Shadow United Nations in The Hague, Dr. M. A. Mahmoud, said in a statement today. Mahmoud strongly criticized the UN Security Council's demand that Croatia put an immediate stop to its action. "It is absolutely outrageous that the Security Council intervenes again in complicity with the aggressors." "An act in self-defence cannot be stopped until the aggression has been completely removed," he said. (hina) vm 031713 MET may 95