ZAGREB, April 30 (Hina) - The Croatian Parliament on Friday began its session with a debate on a report by Ombudsman Ante Klaric for 2003.
ZAGREB, April 30 (Hina) - The Croatian Parliament on Friday began its
session with a debate on a report by Ombudsman Ante Klaric for 2003.#L#
Addressing MPs, Ombudsman Klaric pointed to the problem of devastating
consequences of illegal calculation of interest accrued on loans which
destroyed many small entrepreneurs. In this context he cited an
example when a commercial court decided that one company had to pay
15.5 million kuna as interest accrued on a loan worth 50,000 kuna
after nine years of the lawsuit conducted before that court.
Klaric called on the government to intervene as soon as possible in
the system of calculation of interest rates so as to prevent great
social unrest.
He also spoke about a lack of official lists of state-owned flats,
which made it possible for many to illegally occupy state-owned flats
in the area of Knin.
He urged the government to register all state flats as soon as
possible and establish who is now living in those facilities and on
which grounds they are staying in those flats.
Klaric suggested that the government should insist that owners should
live in their houses after their reconstruction in accordance with
government plans. He also suggested that Bosnian Croats refugees be
allowed to live in state-owned flats and that houses be given back to
their owners who are Croatian Serbs.
Klaric also insists on the annulment of deadlines for submitting
requests for the reconstruction of war-damaged houses, as in many
cases possible applicants are elderly citizens or semi-literate who do
not manage to get timely information on the deadlines.
He suggested the government should make it possible for children of
victims of the Communist Regime to get compensation for the suffering
of their parents.
He explained that those children had many problems because of the
detention of their parents in prisons during the Communist rule, as
many of them could not get scholarship or jobs at the time and that
they were discriminated against when socially-owned flats were
allocated.
(Hina) ms