CRO AMBASSADOR TO UN DISMISSES FRY LETTER TO UN HUMAN RIGHTS

( Editorial: --> 6734 ) GENEVA, April 14 (Hina) - The letter forwarded to the UN Human Rights Commission on Tuesday in which the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia accused Croatia of violating the human rights of all its non-Serb population is a show of the increasing nervousness of authorities in Belgrade and an attempt to smear Croatia's image internationally, the Croatian Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Darko Bekic, said on Tuesday. Bekic is heading a Croatian delegation at this year's session of the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva. He told Hina that "isolated and marginalised by the international community because of the situation in Kosovo, the authorities in Belgrade are displaying increasing nervousness". "FRY wants to jeopardise Croatia's international image, using this letter of propaganda, which conflicts with the diplomatic way of communicating and is composed in the language of Belgrade's domestic political scene, and also wishes to take advantage of the 'Sakic case'", Bekic said. (hina) lm mm/mrb 141850 MET apr 98