CROATIAN PRESIDENT'S ADVISER GIVES INTERVIEW TO ZAGREB DAILY

ZAGREB, March 27 (Hina) - The Zagreb-based daily, Vecernji List, today carried an interview with Ivic Pasalic, President Tudjman's home policy adviser and member of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) leadership, on the nearly unanimous condemnation by parliamentary opposition parties of the Tudjman-Gore agreement and the future UN mandate for Croatia. Pasalic said the opposition parties were critical without saying which solutions would be better. He added that the Copenhagen agreement between Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and US Vice President Al Gore was in line with the Croatian Parliament resolution on ending the UN Protection Force mandate and the peaceful reintegration of occupied areas. "Now it is agreed that international forces should be deployed along Croatian borders, and whoever calls this a cosmetic change is either colourblind or malicious," Pasalic said. "It is pitiful that foreign commentators are aware, unlike our politicians, that if Croatia is forced to solve the problem militarily, it cannot be the same whether it has Western support or whether it faces Western isolation and condemnation." Asked whether UN troops would control or monitor the border, Pasalic said Croatia would insist on border control and not monitoring, as it had been agreed in Copenhagen. Responding to a question on what would happen if rebel Serbs rejected the deployment of international troops along the Croatian state borders, Pasalic said: "Croatian Serbs are not factors of international law and in no way can they make conditions on the contents of the Security Council resolution." (hina) jn vm 271315 MET mar 95