NOBILO FORWARDS LETTER TO CHAIRMAN OF UN SECURITY COUNCIL

ZAGREB, Mar 3 (Hina) - The Permanent Representative of the Republic of Croatia to the UN, Ambassador Mario Nobilo forwarded a letter to Chairman of the UN Security Council French Ambassador Jean-Bernard Merimee, said the Croatian Foreign Ministry today. Commenting on the recent NATO operation, performed in the air space of Bosnia-Herzegovina, when four Serb warplanes were shot down in pursuance of UN Security Council Resolution 816, Nobilo warned that the above mentioned warplanes took off from the military airport in Udbina, which is situated on the temporarily occupied territory of the Republic of Croatia that is under the protection of the United Nations (UNPAs). Two Serb warplanes escaped and landed at the airport in Udbina. The Croatian Government believes that it is an act of jeopardizing of the Croatian sovereignty and territorial integrity, said Nobilo and requested the UN Security Council to take effective measures to protect inviolability of Croatia's air space, to deploy military observers at the Udbina airport and to close the airport to traffic until this area has been reintegrated into the constitutional and legal system of the Republic of Croatia, in conformity with all Security Council relevant resolutions. 031933 MET mar 94