ZAGREB, Jan 13 (Hina) - The chairman of the Croatian parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, Zdravko Tomac, on Monday sent an open letter to Croatian People's Party (HNS) president Vesna Pusic, Parliament President Zlatko Tomcic and
the Foreign Affairs Committee, claiming that the HNS leader had attempted on several occasion to challenge his stands and himself as a person due to his statements about Bosnia-Herzegovina.
ZAGREB, Jan 13 (Hina) - The chairman of the Croatian parliament's
Foreign Affairs Committee, Zdravko Tomac, on Monday sent an open
letter to Croatian People's Party (HNS) president Vesna Pusic,
Parliament President Zlatko Tomcic and the Foreign Affairs
Committee, claiming that the HNS leader had attempted on several
occasion to challenge his stands and himself as a person due to his
statements about Bosnia-Herzegovina. #L#
"In a letter to Parliament President Zlatko Tomcic and in your
public statements you demanded my resignation claiming that I do
not implement Croatia's foreign policy. I claim the opposite. It is
your public statements, Mrs. Pusic, about the Homeland War, the
establishment of the Croatian state, the Hague war crimes tribunal
and the policy towards Bosnia-Herzegovina that depart from the
policy as defined by the Croatian Sabor," Tomac says in the letter.
Tomac claims that Pusic's actions are in opposition to the basic
principles of democracy and liberalism because they challenge the
right to one's own opinion and freedom of public and scientific
work.
Vesna Pusic has requested that Parliament President Tomcic relieve
Tomac of duty as chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee due to a
statement he made at a seminar on former Croatian President Franjo
Tudjman, when he stated that history would show if the late Croatian
president was possibly right with regard to his policy towards
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Stressing that at the time some media misinterpreted his statement
which he subsequently elaborated, Tomac says in the letter to Pusic
that she has been insisting on his responsibility without providing
any arguments and has even declared him a man who threatens
Croatia's integration in the EU and rehabilitates Tudjman's
aggressive policy towards Bosnia, doing so on the basis of a
statement which Tomac claims he never made.
Describing himself as Tudjman's associate, as well as his critic,
Tomac said at the seminar, organised last December by the Croatian
True Revival party, that "given the current situation in Bosnia-
Herzegovina and the status of BH Croats, history could show if
Franjo Tudjman's policy towards Bosnia-Herzegovina was right or
not".
Shortly after the seminar Tomac said that some media had
misinterpreted his statement and dismissed claims that it was
actually an apology to the late Croatian president.
(hina) rml