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OMBUDSMAN: XENOPHOBIA DOES NOT RULE IN CROATIA

ZAGREB, April 1 (Hina) - Croatian Ombudsman Ante Klaric on Tuesday rebutted claims from a report by the U.S. State Department about the human rights situation in Croatia last year. The report notes that national minorities in Croatia, particularly Serbs and the Romany, are faced with serious discrimination.
ZAGREB, April 1 (Hina) - Croatian Ombudsman Ante Klaric on Tuesday rebutted claims from a report by the U.S. State Department about the human rights situation in Croatia last year. The report notes that national minorities in Croatia, particularly Serbs and the Romany, are faced with serious discrimination. #L# "I must reject the assessment that Croatia as a state and the Croatian people have xenophobic impulses and that xenophobia, as a general state of mind, rules in Croatia," Klaric told Zagreb's Nova TV. He added that isolated incidents could not be described as a general atmosphere, but as individual cases which happen everywhere in the world. Estimating that the Romany in Croatia were the most protected minority with the most rights, Klaric said that "the relationship towards the Romany is not only a state issue, but also an issue of the population". He explained that some of the Romany's problems, such as education or obtaining citizenship, mirrored the fact that part of that minority was "constantly on the move, which is why they cannot be registered". Commenting on criticism by the State Department on Croatia's cooperation with the Hague-based U.N. war crimes tribunal, Klaric said the cooperation "is being conducted normally". He added that the government was cooperating with the tribunal in the case of General Janko Bobetko, but was using all benefits stipulated by the tribunal's statute and the constitutional law on cooperation with the tribunal. Regarding criticisms that war crimes proceedings conducted against some Serbs were politicised and that courts convicted people in absence en masse, Klaric said that all those convicted in absence had the right to a retrial once they became available to the authorities, in accordance with Croatian law. Klaric described the criticism about the Supreme Court confirming such verdicts as meddling into the legal system of a country, a system which was compatible with those of other European countries. "Nobody from the Council of Europe or the European community has ever reproached us in that sense," Klaric said. The State Department's report on human rights in the world issued on Tuesday noted Croatia was a country which had achieved progress, but still faced serious problems in the field. The report cites problems regarding war crimes trials against Croats, discrimination against national minorities, Serbs and the Romany, and regression in cooperation with the international war crimes tribunal. (hina) lml

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