COMMENT PIECE BY KRESIMIR FIJACKO (VJESNIK)

ZAGREB, March 31 (Hina) - Today's issue of "VJESNIK" includes a report from the Croatian daily's New York correspondent, Kresimir Fijacko, on the new U.N. mandate draft resolution for Croatia. Fijacko warns of authors of the draft resolution trying to avoid one of Croatia's basic demands - that the name of operation contain the word 'Croatia'. "The name of the draft resolution "United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia stands in brackets as (UNCRO) which means it has still not been clearly defined. "CRO" stands for "...Confidence Restoration Operation" and not for U.N. forces in Croatia", Fijacko writes. Fijacko also warns of the ambiguity of the paragraph on the contents of the new U.N. mandate in Croatia, especially the passage which says U.N. forces would "help to control the borders between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) on the border-crossings the UNCRO forces are responsible for". The U.N. draft resolution does not specify who the U.N. forces would be 'helping' - NATO forces or Croatian soldiers? Fijacko adds that "Security Council diplomats either couldn't or wouldn't comment on this interesting ambiguity". They also had no answer for Croatian journalists on why the draft resolution failed to mention displaced persons and their return. The draft resolution does not include the paragraph "which would stress Croatia's insistence on the implementation of paragraph number 12 of the 820 Security Council's resolution, which specifies that all import, export or transshipment for the Croatian territories, which at the moment are not under Croatian government's control, must be under the control of Croatian authorities. "Croatia's demand that this section of the resolution again be stressed was most strongly objected to by the Russian representative to the Contact Group and Security Council", says Fijacko. Fijacko also writes that the draft resolution stresses Croatian integrity and its internationally recognized borders yet at the same time it insists on the necessity of the consent from the both sides. The draft resolution fails to clearly impose conditions on Serbs. (hina) jn sd rm 311347 MET mar 95