MP VRKIC PROTESTS OVER BOUTROS-GHALI'S STATEMENT

OSIJEK, March 1 (Hina) - Croatian Parliament member, Ivica Vrkic, today forwarded an open letter to the Croatian Foreign Minister, Mate Granic, protesting over a statement by UN Secretary General Boutros-Boutros Ghali about creating some kind of new Yugoslavia in the territory of the newly established countries. The letter expressed hope that the Croatian government would urgently respond regarding this matter. Ghali should be asked whose interests he represented by not supporting the UN resolutions and decisions or Croatia's interests as a UN member, Vrkic said. "Doesn't this statement prove that Ghali openly supports the so-called Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and recognises war and occupation as legitimate means for Serbia to achieve its colonial expansion in the territories of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina", Vrkic said. (Hina) jn rv vm 011431 MET mar 95