PRESIDENT TUDJMAN ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE CSCE SUMMIT

BUDAPEST, Dec 6, (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman last night expressed satisfaction with the participants' in the 9th CSCE summit in Budapest, acceptance of Croatia's views. Summit participants supported the protection of Croatia's territorial integrity, Tudjman said. Reflecting on statements from the UN chief secretary Butros- Butros Ghali and others, Tudjman said there were great differences in the approach to finding a solution to the problems in Bosnia- Herzegovina and the approach to solving problems in the former Yugoslavia in general. "The most important world participants are still unclear on how to solve the crisis," Tudjman said. "In the main, the UN chief secretary and others favour talks, while it could be seen from Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic's speech that he didn't really believe there was a way out of the crisis through talks," Tudjman said. Tudjman considered talks with British and French foreign ministers Douglas Hurd and Alain Juppe 'very interesting'. He told the French and British ministers that it did not come into consideration that Croatia cede some of its territory, as suggested by some foreign media. Tudjman said that during talks he expressed cooperation that solutions be attained via a political path, otherwise the 'conflict could spread to catastrophic proportions'. Minister Juppe and Hurd were aware that the 'arrival of Serb military volunteers, Russian Bolsheviks and communists, who came to fight in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the arrival of Moslem fundamentalists, could flame the conflict into something as huge as the first world war'. President Tudjman said that during talks with American President Bill Clinton, the territorial integrity of Croatia was supported as well as the view that sanctions only be lifted off Belgrade when it accepted a peaceful solution to the conflict. Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic also participated in these talks, along with United States state secretary Warren Christopher and the US ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright, Tudjman said. President Tudjman said that Russian Minister Andrej Kozirjev, had told him in a brief meeting that he believed that 'even the Serb side would be ready to accept the peace the process'. President Tudjman yesterday met the Hungarian President Arpad Goncz, Bulgarian President Zelo Zeljev and Austrian foreign minister Alois Mock. (Hina) jn sd 061248 MET dec 94