ZAGREB ASSEMBLY DIDN'T CO-ORGANISE REGIONAL CONFERENCE - CHAIRWOMAN

ZAGREB, Jan 16 (Hina) - Zagreb City Assembly chairwoman Morana Palikovic-Gruden said on Friday the Assembly was not one of the organisers of today's "Zagreb-Sarajevo-Belgrade towards Europe" regional conference and that it was "an error if the invitations state so".#L# "The Assembly is neither the organiser nor the co-organiser of the regional conference since it would need to make a decision about it," she told Hina when asked to comment on today's claims from the chairmen of the Assembly clubs of deputies of the Croatian True Revival, the Croatian Bloc, and the Croatian Party of Rights. Palikovic-Gruden said the conference was organised by the Serbia-Montenegrin Novi Sad-based NGO Centre for Regionalism and the Zagreb-based Civic Committee for Human Rights, with support from the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation. "As chairwoman of the Zagreb City Assembly, I welcomed at the regional conference my colleagues from Belgrade and Sarajevo." Palikovic-Gruden said she supported conferences on tolerance among people, human rights and cooperation between cities. She went on to say that an agreement on interethnic cooperation, which was put forward by the Novi Sad Centre for Regionalism, was not signed today because it had not passed in the Belgrade, Zagreb and Sarajevo city authorities and assemblies. (Hina) ha sb