ITALIAN DEPUTY PERMANENT REP TO UN ON RESOLUTION ON CROATIA

NEW YORK, April 1 (Hina) - In a statement to the United Nations Italian deputy permanent representative to the UN, Lorenzo Ferrarin, welcomed the adoption of the three Resolutions, saying that they "modify the general architecture of the presence" of UN forces. Speaking of the UN Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia (UNCRO), he said that the resolution "gives the outlines of its mandate, based on the recent agreement between the Government of the Republic of Croatia and the United States, and on the statement issued in Copenhagen by President Tudjman". Saying that UNCRO - as well as the other two peacekeeping operations in the former Yugoslavia - could not be an end in themselves or a final solution, Ferrarin stressed that UNCRO "shall be an interim arrangement to create the conditions that will facilitate a comprehensive negotiated settlement consistent with the territorial integrity of the Republic of Croatia and with the security and the rights of all its communities". He added that UNCRO "is not and cannot be seen as an instrument due to freeze and perpetuate a "de facto" situation which we consider unacceptable". (hina) rm mms 011831 MET apr 95