ZAGREB, Jan 30(Hina) - The Croatian parliament on Friday considered a bill of amendments to the law on the rights of war veterans and their families, pointing to the need of passing a new, comprehensive law.
ZAGREB, Jan 30(Hina) - The Croatian parliament on Friday considered a
bill of amendments to the law on the rights of war veterans and their
families, pointing to the need of passing a new, comprehensive law.#L#
The bill proposes repealing provisions based on which war veterans
serving prison sentences longer than six months and their families
were denied some rights, which the government feels is
unconstitutional, said Jadranka Kosor, minister of family and war
veterans' affairs and inter-generation solidarity. The bill also
proposes financial compensation.
Ivica Pancic of the Social Democrats said the Croatian Democratic
Union (HDZ) claimed during last year's election campaign that it had
prepared the new law but that yesterday Kosor announced the
establishment of a task force which would draw up the new law.
The state secretary at the ministry, Tomislav Ivic, said that it was
unrealistic to expect that the government would move the new law in
such a short time, before the ministry staff was complete, but vowed
the task force would start drafting the new law as early as next
week.
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