GENERAL ROSE IN MOSTAR

MOSTAR, Feb 6 (Hina/HABENA) - Newly-appointed U.N. Force Commander to Bosnia-Herzegovina, General Michael Rose with his assistants visited Mostar on Saturday where he met the senior officials of the government of the Croatian Republic of Herceg-Bosna (HR HB), stated the information office of this government. General Rose held talks with the prime minister of the HR HB's government, Jadranko Prlic who gave promise that the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) would continue in the cooperation with UNPROFOR during its mandate. Prlic reiterated the commitment of the HR HB to seeking a peace solution to the B-H crisis. He stressed that the Croatian side was supporting all humanitarian activities. Thus 570 humanitarian convoys had passed through the territory of Herzeg-Bosnia in last fourth months, according to Prlic. He warned that at the same time the Croatian enclaves under siege had received no relief aid, neither were they proclaimed to be protected areas. At this meeting with General Rose Perica Jukic, the defence minister of the HR HB, asserted that no regular members of the Croatian Army were included into the units of the Croatian Defence Council (HVO). General Rose informed his interlocutors of the tasks assumed by the UNPROFOR during its mandate in B-H, emphasizing especially the task to provide secure conditions for dispatching humanitarian aid to all the parts of B-H, said the statement of the information office of the HR HB's government. 061644 MET feb 94