DEPUTY PM KOSOR MEETS SURVIVING MEMBERS OF ZEC FAMILY

ZAGREB, April 30 (Hina) - Croatia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Family Affairs, War Veterans and Inter-Generation Solidarity, Jadranka Kosor, on Friday met the surviving members of the Zec family, Dusan and Gordana, and handed them a government decision on the one-off payment of 1.5 million kuna (200,000 euros) into their drawing account.#L# Kosor told reporters that Dusan and Gordana Zec were informed about yesterday's decision of the government to allocate them one-off financial assistance because they had lost their parents and had been left without care and means of living as minors. "We believe that they will use the money to create conditions to start living on their own in the future," Kosor said, adding that they talked about many topics and that she expressed deep sympathy with their tragedy and wished them a lot of luck and health in life. Kosor added that they agreed to meet again. Dusan Zec thanked Kosor, the Prime Minister and the Government "for our agreement", as well as his and his sister's attorney Anto Nobilo and the media that covered their family's case. The public first learned of the Zec family at the beginning of the war in 1991, when reserve members of the Croatian Interior Ministry killed Mihajlo Zec, his wife Marija and their 12-year-old daughter Aleksandra in Zagreb. Although the killers admitted the crime, they were never put on trial due to a procedural mistake. Dusan and Gordana, who have been living in Banja Luka with their grandmother since 1991, filed a lawsuit against the Republic of Croatia with the Zagreb Municipal Court, seeking 1.5 million kuna in damages, the amount which the government decided to pay in the form of one-off financial assistance. (Hina) rml