HB, HIP ZAGREB ASSEMBLY DEPUTIES FOR RECALLING CHAIRWOMAN

ZAGREB, Jan 16 (Hina) - The Zagreb City Assembly clubs of deputies of the Croatian Bloc (HB) and the Croatian True Revival (HIP) parties announced on Friday they would ask at the next session that Assembly chairwoman Morana Palikovic-Gruden be recalled because the Assembly accepted to co-organise today's regional conference "Zagreb-Sarajevo-Belgrade towards Europe" without the deputies' knowledge.#L# The Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) is to hold consultations on whether its club of deputies will join the request, the clubs' chairmen, HIP's Nenad Ivankovic, the HB's Tomislav Jelic and the HSP's Miroslav Rozic told reporters. Ivankovic said the City Assembly rules of procedure and statute did not allow either co-organisation or the signing of an agreement since neither the city deputies nor the committee on cooperation between cities and between countries nor the Assembly deputy chairmen had known about it. He added that Palikovic-Gruden should have protected the Assembly's dignity and either boycotted the conference or publicly protested against "such manipulation". "Because she failed to do so, we shall ask that she be recalled," Ivankovic said, labelling her conduct "inappropriate". (Hina) ha sb