TRIPARTITE CROATIAN-TURKISH-BOSNIAN TALKS

ZAGREB, Dec 7 (Hina) - Foreign Ministers of Croatia, Turkey and Bosnia-Herzegovina reached a high level of understanding in all important issues concerning the solution of the Bosnian conflict and the reintegration of the UNPAs into Croatia's constitutional and legal system, Croatia's Foreign Minister Mate Granic today told reporters. Tripartite talks in Zagreb involved Minister Granic and his Turkish and Bosnian counterparts, Murat Karayalcin and Irfan Ljubijankic. "During the talks full support was given to the Washington Accords and the original Contact Group Plan. We should do everything to make the international community pressure Bosnian Serbs into accepting this plan," Granic said. "As for the situation in Croatia's occupied areas, we hope that the international community will help the implementation of the Dec 2 Agremeent with Knin Serbs and that we'll get a plan for the reintergration of the UNPAs very soon. If not, Croatia won't extend the UNPROFOR mandate," Minister Granic said. Asked how Turkey would help Bosnia-Herzegovina in the event of UNPROFOR's withdrawal, Minister Karayalcin said that "the troops would be replaced with soldiers from other countries, including countries members of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC)". If a final agreement was reached in Bosnia, its implementation should be entrusted to more efficient NATO forces rather than to UNPROFOR, Granic said. He said no concrete proposal had as yet been made to change the Contact Group Plan to include the possibility of confederal links between Bosnian Serbs and Serbia. "Croatia dosn't want to be in any alliance with Belgrade and is strongly supporting the original Contact Group Plan," Granic said. "Any political and federal alliance between Bosnian Serbs and Serbia is unacceptable. We will accept any ideas capable of promoting the implementation of the Contact Group Plan provided they do not jeopardise the integrity and sovereignty of Bosnia- Herzegovina", Minister Ljubijankic concluded. 071939 MET dec 94