BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4904 HINA Zagreb, 25 March 2003

HR-POLITICS-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4904 HINA Zagreb, 25 March 2003 CROATIAN GOVERNMENT'S CRISIS COMMITTEE HOLDS FIRST SESSIONZAGREB, March 25 (Hina) - The Croatian government's crisis committee at its first session on Tuesday discussed the development of events in Iraq and possible effects of military operations on Croatia. The committee also debated possibilities and the necessity of introducing additional security measures in certain ministries, the government's public relations office reported. The crisis committee was established by the government at its sitting on February 27. Today's session was chaired by Prime Minister Ivica Racan and attended by ministers, members of this body, as well as the HEP power supply company's CEO, Ivo Covic, the INA oil company's CEO, Tomislav Dragicevic, and the CEO of the JANAF Adriatic pipeline, Vesna Trnokop-Tanta. Reiterating the government's stands on the Iraqi crisis, Racan voiced Croatia's readiness to support any solutio