"EDIT" ACTING DIRECTOR TENDERS RESIGNATION

RIJEKA, Feb 25 (Hina) - Acting director of the "Edit" publishing company of the Italian minority in Croatia, Fabrizio Radin, on Tuesday tendered his resignation, one month before the end of his term of office on March 23. The company's steering board will discuss the resignation later in the day, said the president of the Italian Union, Maurizio Tremul. #L# After a meeting between representatives of the union and Primorje- Gorski Kotar County Prefect Zlatko Komadina, Tremul said the steering board had accepted a draft programme for Edit's financial rehabilitation. He also said that a part of funds for financing the Italian community via the People's University in Trieste, had been deposited onto the union's account. Komadina said the two sides at the meeting had confirmed their cooperation and agreed that the county support the publishing company with 100,000 kuna (EUR13,158). This relays a message to the Trieste university that financing of Edit and good relations should be established as soon as possible, said Komadina. Edit is currently in financial difficulties due to debts accumulated over the years. The Italian Union's Executive Council's chairman, Silvano Zilli, said that until a public tender was announced, the steering council would ask Radin to last until the end of term. (hina) lml