CROATIAN PRESIDENT MEETS YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER

ZAGREB, Nov 4 (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman today received Yugoslav Foreign Minister Vladislav Jovanovic to discuss overall Croatian-Serbian relations and the possibilities of solving the crisis peacefully, the President's Office said in a statement. Tudjman presented Croatia's views and Jovanovic said he would relay them to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. Tudjman said Croatia would consider cancelling UNPROFOR's mandate unless an agreement on the reintegration of occupied territories was signed by November 21 and its implemenation began by December 20. The President said Croatia was caring for 394,000 displaced people who had to return to their homes in occupied territories. Tudjman noted that both he and the Government were bound by Parliament decisions on the UNPROFOR mandate and the reintegration of occupied territories. He added that the Croatian people could no longer tolerate procrastination in the settlement. Tudjman supported a negotiated settlement but rejected infinite negotiations because they would not solve the crisis. The President stressed Croatia could not participate in talks if they were aimed at a Cyprus-style partitioning of Croatia. In this respect, a meeting with President Milosevic was possible only if it led to recognizing Croatia within its internationally recognized borders by Serbia and Montenegro, Tudjman said. Tudjman said that a group of extremists should be prevented from further imposing their views on how to solve the crisis, noting that only a minority of the Serb community in Croatia lived in its occupied areas. He said Serbs in Zagreb had no problems, adding that almost half of the judges in Karlovac were Serbs. Tudjman reiterated that Croatia guaranteed all civil and ethnic rights to the Serb minority in line with the highest international standards. Croatia and its allies agreed that sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) should stay in place until occupied territories were restored under Croatia's authority, Tudjman said. He told Jovanovic there was no crisis with Serbs in Zagreb and government-controlled parts of Croatia. The meeting also involved Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic and his deputy Ivo Sanader, the President's special envoy Miomir Zuzul, head of the Croatian Office in Belgrade Zvonimir Markovic and internal affairs adviser Ivic Pasalic. Minister Jovanovic was accompanied by head of the Yugoslav Office in Zagreb Veljko Knezevic. (hina) mm sd vm 042106 MET nov 94