CROATIAN AMBASSADOR WRITES TO U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

ZAGREB, Sept 16 (Hina) - Croatian Ambassador to the United Nations Mario Nobilo today fowarded a letter to Security Council President Juan Antonio Yanez-Barnuevo in connection with a letter of the Yugoslav Goverment to the Security Council, a Croatian Foreign Ministry statement said. The Yugoslav Government called for the extension of the UNPROFOR mandate in Croatia and the consistent implementation of the Vance Plan. Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, also claimed that Croatia was politicizing the existing negotiating process and that contrary to the Vance Plan, it raised the issue of a final political settlement. The Croatian ambassador said in his letter that Yugoslavia was interfering in the internal affairs of Croatia, a sovereign member of the United Nations, thus acting contrary to international law, UN Security Council resolutions and final documents of the CSCE meeting in Rome. Nobilo stressed that a decision on the future of UNPROFOR's mandate in Croatia lay within the exclusive competence of the Croatian Parliament and Government. Security Council resolutions and other relevant international documents clearly confirmed that the UN protected areas were an integral and sovereign part of Croatia, so that any attempt to negate those facts could be called the "politicization" of international law, Nobilo said. However, the Croatian Government welcomed a view of Yugoslavia that the Vance Plan should be fully and consistently implemented, Nobilo said, recalling some key elements of the plan: - the UNPA's will be demilitirized and all armed forces inside them will be either withdrawn or disbanded (Point 7); - military observers will be deployed in parts of Bosnia- Herzegovina bordering on Croatia (Point 13); - local police units, reflecting the ethnic structure before the outbreak of hostilities, will be formed in the UNPA's (Point 19); - all displaced persons willing to return to their homes will be allowed to do so (Point 20). Yugoslavia's concrete and political interference in the UN protected areas of Croatia, the proof of which could be found in common monetary, customs, education, trade and military links between these areas and Yugoslavia, led the Croatian Government to request that the occupation of these areas be included in the agenda of the 49th regular session of the UN General Assembly, Nobilo concluded. (hina) ks vm 162108 MET sep 94