ZAGREB, March 1 (Hina) - The club of deputies of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) will urge a parliamentary debate on the Homeland War in light of minority deputy Furio Radin's recent statement that Jews and Roma were subjected to
ethnic cleansing in World War II, Italians and Germans in 1945, and Croatian Serbs in the first half of the 1990s.
ZAGREB, March 1 (Hina) - The club of deputies of the Croatian Party of
Rights (HSP) will urge a parliamentary debate on the Homeland War in
light of minority deputy Furio Radin's recent statement that Jews and
Roma were subjected to ethnic cleansing in World War II, Italians and
Germans in 1945, and Croatian Serbs in the first half of the 1990s.#L#
HSP leader Anto Djapic said at a news conference in parliament on
Monday that his party would request the Committee on the Constitution,
the Rule Book and the Political System to state its position on "the
failure of session chairman Darko Milinovic and parliament president
Vladimir Seks to react to (Radin's) statement" and open a debate on
the basis of the Committee's opinion.
Djapic called on the Croatian Democratic Union to "state its position
on the stand of its coalition partners" and urged Radin to apologise
for his statement, which he claimed described Croats as genocidal by
nature.
HSP deputy Tonci Tadic warned that Prime Minister Ivo Sanader's
message to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi about Croatia's
readiness to return in kind part of the property of Italians who left
Yugoslavia after WWII could pose a dangerous precedent, with Italian
refugees claiming back all the real estate they had once owned in
Dalmatia, Rijeka, Primorje and Istria.
He recalled that according to previously signed agreements with Italy
Croatia owed Italian refugees 35 million, which he believed would
best be settled with a one-off payment into an account in one of
Italian banks, in line with the solution applied by Slovenia.
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