ZAGREB, July 5 (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman on
Tuesday received a US Congress delegation, consisting of Howard
Berman, Alcee Hastings, Julian Dixon, Lucille Royball-Allard, Anna
Eshoo, Butler Derrick, Robert Menendez and Nancy Pelosi. The talks
were also attended by US Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith.
The talks focused on the problem of Croatian occupied
territories under UN protection, the Contact Group plan for Bosnia-
Herzegovina and other issues relative to the resolution of the
crisis in former Yugoslavia, said the President's office in a
statement.
President Tudjman expressed apreciation for the US involvement
in resolving the crisis in former Yugoslavia. For its part, the
Croatian Government welcomed and signed the Washington Agreements
and is endeavouring to create the conditions for ending the war and
speeding up the resolution of the problem of the UNPAs.
Asked to expound Croatia's official views on the extension of
the UNPROFOR mandate, President Tudjman noted that 25 percent of
the Croatian territory was under occupation. This area had been
sized by 194 thousand people, i.e. four percent of the population
of Croatia, who expelled 250,000 Croats, Hungarians, Ruthenians and
other non-Serbs. In this respect, President Tudjman stressed the
Government's determination not to extend the present mandate, which
allowed ethnic cleansing to go on and 600 people to be killed in
the UNPAs in the past two years. President Tudjman supported the US
stance that the sanctions against Serbia should be linked to the
situation in Croatia.
UNPROFOR has failed to implement the Vance Plan, because it
yielded to Serbian pressure, said President Tudjman, adding that
the UN Security Council shuld consider investing UNPROFOR with
wider powers. He went on to suggest that the international
community should also use NATO.
Asked to comment on the Contact Group proposal for Bosnia-
Herzegovina, President Tudjman said Croatia was going to use its
influence to encourage the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina to
accept the proposal.
Speaking about the possibility of lifting the arms embargo,
President Tudjman said a political solution, not the spill-over of
war, was the thing to aim for, even if it meant enforcing peace.
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