NEW YORK, July 12 (Hina) - The report by the U.N. Secretary-General demonstrates that after the seven years it has spent on Prevlaka the U.N. does not offer anything new which could contribute to the permanent solution of that issue,
Croatia's Ambassador at the U.N., Ivan Simonovic, said on Monday. Commenting on today's report by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on U.N. observers on Croatia's southern-most peninsula of Prevlaka, which borders with Yugoslavia, Simonovic expressed hope that the Security Council would make a step more than the U.N. Secretary-General was willing to make and change the regime on Prevlaka so as to enable full freedom of movement and use of the whole area by civilians. Simonovic also reflected on the part of report in which Annan objected to Croatia's opening border crossings with Montenegro. Instead of calling the re-establishment of life in the area a violatio
NEW YORK, July 12 (Hina) - The report by the U.N. Secretary-General
demonstrates that after the seven years it has spent on Prevlaka the
U.N. does not offer anything new which could contribute to the
permanent solution of that issue, Croatia's Ambassador at the U.N.,
Ivan Simonovic, said on Monday.
Commenting on today's report by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan
on U.N. observers on Croatia's southern-most peninsula of
Prevlaka, which borders with Yugoslavia, Simonovic expressed hope
that the Security Council would make a step more than the U.N.
Secretary-General was willing to make and change the regime on
Prevlaka so as to enable full freedom of movement and use of the
whole area by civilians.
Simonovic also reflected on the part of report in which Annan
objected to Croatia's opening border crossings with Montenegro.
Instead of calling the re-establishment of life in the area a
violation of the blue zone, the Secretary-General should suggest to
the Council a change of the regime, Simonovic believes.
Simonovic agrees with Annan's statement concerning a lack of
progress in the Croatian-Yugoslav talks on Prevlaka. There can be
no results as long as Yugoslavia is stubbornly rejecting to
recognise the internationally recognised borders, Simonovic
said.
Mediation and arbitration, which the U.N. Secretary is discreetly
suggesting, are not necessary because the problem is not in the
position of the land border, but rather in accepting and respecting
it, Simonovic concluded.
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