BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4877

HR-BULLETIN-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4877 HINA Zagreb 27 February 2003GOVERNMENT DECISION ON U.S. REQUEST POLITICAL, OPERATIVE NATURE - MINISTERZAGREB, Feb 27 (Hina) - Croatian Defence Minister Zeljka Antunovic has said that the government's decision on the U.S. request is of both political and operative character. "The decision to grant the U.S. request refers to our permission, if and when it may be asked, to allow overflights of civilian transport aircraft in accordance with our obligations from co-operation in combating international terrorism," Minister Antunovic said at the opening of a centre for self-learning of foreign languages at the command of the "Petar Zrinski" military academy in Zagreb on Thursday. Present at the opening of this modern centre were the ambassadors of the United States and Great Britain, Lawrence Rossin and Nicholas Jarrold, whose countries financed this school with some US$200,000 and some GBP50,000 respectively. The Croatian governmen