PRESIDENT TUDJMAN WRITES TO PRESIDENT CLINTON, FOREIGN MINISTERS

ZAGREB, May 14 (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman on Saturday forwarded a letter to US President Bill Clinton, said the president's office. Following is the full text of the letter: "I take particular pleasure in informing your that the negotiations of the Croat and Bosniac delegations concerning the comprehensive implementation of the Washington Agreements have been brought to a successful close. I would hereby like to express particular gratitude to the Administration of the United States of America, and to you personally, Mr. President, for your role in the search for lasting and just solutions for the achievement of peace through the realisation of the Croat-Bosniac Federation and Confederation. Let me once again assure you that the Republic of Croatia will remain firmly committed to the spirit and letter of the Washington and Vienna Agreements, whishing to be a factor of stability in this part of Europe and a permanent partner of the USA in the promotion of peace and stability in this part of Europe. The leading role of your country in the achievement of a lasting political solution is crucial in this, the final stage of the peace process. Any freezing of the present state of affairs, and delay of a solution, only sustains human agony and threatens peace in the greater European area. This is why the present peace efforts of the international community should be focused on the esign of instruments and guarantees for the implementation of the achieved agreements and decisions of the international community. Let me remind you once again that the problems of the Serbian occupation of parts of the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina are inseparable, and to reiterate the need to seek a lasting solution through an integral approach of the international community to the problem. Mr. President, I am firmly convinced that - with your personal involvement and the moral and every other determination of your Administration - we shall soon be able to focus our efforts on issues such as the return of refugees to their homes, economic reconstruction, reconciliation and the strengthening of democratic processes in order to create a new, stable international order in this part of Europe." In a letter to US Secretary of State Warren Cristopher and foreign ministers of the Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece and the Russian Federation, President Tudjman said their "determination to bring the Serbian side round to accepting a just political solution and to impose such a solution to the forces obstructing the peace process was of paramount importance." 141305 MET may 94