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ZAGREB, Dec 31 (Hina) - "Croatia did and is doing everything to
help the Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina," President Tudjman said in
his answer to the question on whether Croatia is helping the Croats
in central Bosnia. He also said that Croatia will help not only by
direct negotiations with Izetbegovic and Silajdzic but also by
engaging those international factors that are interested in that
the peace between Muslims and Croats is reached as soon as
possible, such as Turkey, Austria, Germany, "including the former
President of the European Council V.Claes, whom I had invited to a
meeting in Vienna to realize that together."
"Unfortunately, so far we were not very successful But, we shall
not give up protecting the Croatian people in B-H nor the strategic
interests of the Croatian state," President Tudjman.
Asked by a viewer whether Croatia was indirectly aiding the
aggression on Croats in Bosnia by providing shelter for hundreds of
thousands of refugees in Bosnia, President Tudjman replied that is
a paradoxical situation, but that "the world would say that we were
acting inhumanly if I told Alija Izetbegovic that we shall return
all Muslims to Bosnia, unless he stops the offensive on Croats in
Bosnia." President Tudjman added that the Muslim formations are
known to be renting out tanks and buying ammunition for hard
currency from Serbs for fighting Croats in central Bosnia.
Asked whether the change of borders or the exchange of territory
can serve the establishment of peace, President Tudjman stated that
he had told all world diplomats and leaders who were asking that
question that Croatia cannot make any territorial concessions,
because "Croatia entered into the former Yugoslav state with a much
larger territory than that within Croatia's borders in the federal
Yugoslavia and the present internationally recognized borders."
President Tudjman recalled that he personally had signed with
President Izetbegovic an agreement on cooperation and friendship
between the Muslim and Croatian republics in the Union of Bosnia-
Herzegovina in Geneva on September 14, but that two days after that
Izetbegovic signed an agreement with Serbs which practically
verified the disintegration of the Union.
"The Muslim leaders are now requiring an access to the sea and
Neum. They are doing in so categorically that the international
community is demanding from Croatia to facilitate that future
Muslim state access to the sea. Muslims are seeking territorial
sovereignty, which I categorically refused, because we cannot agree
to let Neum become a part of the Muslim republic," President
Tudjman said and went on: "Then, the European and even Muslim
circles produced an idea to give the Muslims access to the sea at
the Prevlaka peninsula, and that in return Neum and the Dubrovnik
hinterland would go to Croatia. In seeking peace we can take that
possibility into consideration."
In reference to the violations of the human rights, blowing up of
Serbian houses and ejections from apartments, President Tudjman
said that Croatia is doing everything to eliminate such events,
which are the result of the aggression and war that was imposed on
Croatia.
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