INSTIGATOR OF WAR SHOULD BE CLEARLY NAMED - MESTROVIC

STRASBOURG, Jan 29 (Hina) - A member of the Croatian Parliament delegation at the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly session in Strasbourg, Mate Mestrovic, on Wednesday expressed regret about the fact that demonstrators in Belgrade who were protesting about the annulment of local elections in the federal republic of Yugoslavia, had not protested during the time of destruction of Vukovar, Sarajevo and Dubrovnik. #L# It was sad that the demonstrators had not gone out on the streets when Vukovar was being destroyed, when the wounded in the Vukovar hospital were being shot, when Dubrovnik and Sarajevo were being destroyed, Mestrovic said in his speech in the framework of a discussion on the situation in FRY. "In Sarajevo, I saw 12,000 graves of people who were killed during bombardments and from snipers," Mestrovic said. The Parliamentary Assembly should adopt a resolution condemning authorities in Belgrade for the failure to respect the results of local elections which took place on 17 November last year. Mestrovic expressed support to peaceful demonstrations in Belgrade as the "basis of democracy". He stressed that among those demonstrating in the streets of FRY's capital there was a large number of people who were in this way expressing dissatisfaction because of the unsuccessful politics of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in the creation of Greater Serbia, and a large number of people who were expressing dissatisfaction about the economic situation. Supporting the draft resolution which is to be adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly on Wednesday afternoon, Mestrovic said that the resolution's deficiency was the fact that Milosevic had not been clearly stated as the one who had begun the war in the region of former Yugoslavia. "The one who started the war cannot be a guarantor for peace," Mestrovic stressed. (hina) lm jn 291609 MET jan 97