PRESIDENT TUDJMAN TO ADDRESS CSCE BUDAPEST SUMMIT TOMORROW

BUDAPEST, Dec 4 (Hina) - Croatian President Dr. Franjo Tudjman is to speak tomorrow at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) two-day summit in Budapest, Croatia's CSCE Ambassador Darko Bekic said today. President Tudjman heading the Croatian delegation will hold several bilateral meetings during the CSCE Budapest Summit . At the Summit the presidents or premiers of the CSCE member- countries are expected to adopt several documents, the consultations on which are now under way. The CSCE Committee of the Senior Officials adopted the Decision on the situation in Bihac on Thursday, Dec 1, after its several-day emergency session. In the Decision where it condemns the Serb onslaught on Bihac, the Committee noticed that "opportunities for consultations on the situation in Bosnia including the Bihac region were offered by upcoming high-level meetings in international fora in the next few days, and particularly the CSCE Budapest Summit, and urged all the parties concerned to fully utilize them". The parties concerned should also include the latest developments in Bihac into their consultations during the CSCE Budapest summit on 5 and 6 December. Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina urge that the Decision should become one of the special decisions of the upcoming CSCE summit. But, Russia's delegation strongly opposes such a move, and requests that the Decision should be included just in a document on the situation in the States that have emerged in former Yugoslavia, Ambassador Bekic said. By the special declaration on the situation in Bihac we would like to say that Bihac was not merely an episode in the series of sufferings, but to stress that it is an important strategic turning point in the further developments in Bosnia-Herzegovina, he said. He added that Croatia opposed a suggestion that the suspension on membership of the so-called Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia/Montenegro) to the CSCE should cease now. Croatia holds the FRY should be suspended from the CSCE until Belgrade recognizes other countries, emerged in the former Yugoslavia, in their UN- enshrined borders and until it meet all other prerequisites such as the respect for human and minorities' rights. (hina) mms 041701 MET dec 94