HSS TO SEEK URGENT SESSION OF PARLIAMENT ON REPORTED HAGUE INDICTMENTS

ZAGREB, March 6 (Hina) - Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) leader Zlatko Tomcic announced on Saturday that his party would call for an urgent session of parliament to discuss fresh indictments reportedly issued by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague against Croatian generals and "the counterproductive behaviour of the incumbent government".#L# "The indictments are quite certainly in Croatia. This can be best seen from statements made by those concerned," Tomcic told reporters before a convention of the HSS women's organisation "Woman's Heart". The HSS leader said that the Hague tribunal indictments were treated by Croatian authorities "the same as before". When the indictments came in, the authorities should have presented all the arguments and details to the Croatian public and parliament rather than resort to "a conspiracy of silence", he said. Tomcic said that "key people in the executive and legislative branches are irresponsible in claiming that they have no information about the indictments." Responding to a journalist's remark that the previous government, of which the HSS was part, had also kept Hague tribunal indictments secret from the public, Tomcic said that "neither in the previous government was information on indictments available to everyone." (Hina) vm sb