INTERVIEW OF MINISTER SUSAK WITH CROATIAN TELEVISION

-> HINA 13.11.1993 03:05:00 mmarija ED $ $ INTERVIEW OF MINISTER SUSAK WITH CROATIAN TELEVISION $ ZAGREB, Nov 13 (Hina) - Croatian Defence Minister Gojko Susak spoke about his one-week visit to the U.S.A. in last night's broadcast of the Croatian Television. Minister Susak said that he had informed the American top-officials in detail of the peace initiative proposed by Croatian President Tudjman. The U.S. senior officials evaluated that the initiative "is the first entire package of solutions to problems on the area of the former Yugoslavia", according to Mr. Susak. Croatian Defence Minister added that the massage of the official U.S. policy to Croatia was not to allow to be drawn again into a war. "If Croatia choose the military option and it again may provoke a war on the greater scale with Serbia and the Serbs from Bosnia-Herzegovina, in that case Britain, France and Russia will request imposing sanction against Croatia. The U.S. officials said that we could not have political ground to require that sanctions be lifted. However, if we accept to continue seeking solutions in a peaceful way, they will put pressure and use, if necessary, the veto in the issue of lifting sanctions against Serbia until the issue of Croatia should be resolved," said Minister Susak. "Although it is partly true what certain media say that Croatia enjoys bad image in the West due to the conflict between Croats and Moslems in B-H, the official standpoint of the U.S.A. is that we can consider them to be in favour to us," stressed Minister Susak adding that they were aware of what Croatia had done for the refugees from B-H and that Croatia was not taking the anti-Moslem course. The Croatian Defence Minister said that his American hosts appealed to Croatia to do its utmost to stop the conflict between Croats and Moslems. Mr. Susak informed in that context that a group of American congressmen would pay visit to Croatia and B-H. Commenting on his talks in the Pentagon Minister Susak said that he had received "very satisfactory responses" to the proposal on the cooperation in the education of the Croatian Army and on the proposal that the NATO ships could be mended in the Croatia ship-repairing yards. 131506 MET nov 93