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Socialist Outlook no. 51, October 30 1993 · 296 words

Balkans Trade unions

The only State Depurtment officer who ham't quit in protest against U.S. pollcy on Bosnia. POLICY? The Caterin Adore Meto. THE INTERNATIONAI department of the Union of Autonomous Trade Unions of Croatia (UATUC), Zagreb, has written the following letter in support of the Workers Aid Convoy and issued this call to trade unions in Europe. "THE UNION of Autonomous Trade Unions of Croatia, the largest trade union confederation with 26 affiliated trade unions and 81 local/regional offices, has a total of 721,000 members.

We are members of the Forum of the European Trade Union Confederation and several of our trade unions are members of international associations (PSI, ICEF, ITF). We co-operate with the majority of European trade unions.

We have stated our position about the political and war situation in the republic of Croatia in our statement of 20 July, together with another smaller trade union confederation and a federation of the public sector.

Fundamentals

On the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina we made a public statement on 26 August. We can repeat our fundamental viewpoints concerning the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

• We are for full respect of humanitarian rights and for the opening up of all roads for humanitarian aid;

• We are against ethnic cleansing regardless of the side that exercises it;

• And we are against the division of Bosnia-Herzegovina into pure ethnic territories, since it would result in more ethnic cleansing.

In this sense we supported the Workers Aid action - 'International Workers Aid for Tuzla' - and we held talks in the premises of our trade union with the representatives of the convoy for Tuzla.

The UATUC did everything in its power to secure for them:

1. Logistic help in organising meetings and talks and con-

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