RIJEKA, Jan 18 (Hina) - The Italian Union's Assembly on Saturday urged the Trieste National University to rescind its unilateral decision on terminating the implementation of a permanent plan on cooperation and financing.
RIJEKA, Jan 18 (Hina) - The Italian Union's Assembly on Saturday
urged the Trieste National University to rescind its unilateral
decision on terminating the implementation of a permanent plan on
cooperation and financing. #L#
The plan was agreed on by the Italian university and the Italian
Union in 1996 and endorsed by Italy's government.
Representatives of the Trieste university did not accept the
invitation to attend today's meeting in Rijeka.
The Trieste National University last summer requested the Italian
Union, the legal representative of the Italian communities in
Croatia and Slovenia, to submit a financial plan for 2003, which the
Union failed to do before the year was out. In December, the Trieste
institution decided to stop financing the Union.
Today the Italian Union's assembly demanded the resumption of
financing and announced a lawsuit with a regional court in Trieste
against the university's decision, which it deems unlawful, and to
seek damages.
Also today, the assembly urged the Trieste university to rescind a
decision on the establishment of a similar institution in Croatia.
The Italian government annually allocates some EUR8.6 million for
the Italian communities in Croatia and Slovenia. Six million is at
the disposal of the Trieste National University and 2.5 million
goes directly to the Italian Union.
The Italian Union's assembly thanked the Italian government for its
support and urged that it advocate the immediate resumption of
financing.
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