ZAGREB, May 31 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said on Saturday completely banning work on Sundays in Croatia was not possible, but that it should be reduced to the minimum.
ZAGREB, May 31 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said on
Saturday completely banning work on Sundays in Croatia was not
possible, but that it should be reduced to the minimum. #L#
"Completely banning work on Sundays is impossible because in that
case the sale of candles and other material in churches should also
be banned. Glas koncila (a Catholic weekly) is on sale Sundays as
well," the President told citizens who visited him at his office.
Mesic believes Caritas Croatia's initiative to ban work on Sundays
does not envisage an all-round ban but that work on Sundays be paid
accordingly and be reduced to the minimum.
On another subject, the President said Croatia was likely to
succeed in obtaining a July 1 deadline extension from the United
States on the signing of an accord on the non-extradition of U.S.
citizens to the International Criminal Court.
Mesic believes that by July 1 Croatia will manage to resolve open
issues concerning the accord decision. He said the US$19 million
promised Croatia if it signed the deal had been reduced to $6
million.
Commenting on press reports that the U.S. had suggested Croatia
send its military police to Iraq to help preserve security there,
Mesic said Croatia had not received an official request to that
effect, but that it would participate in the reconstruction.
Asked to comment on a recently circulated list of persons unwanted
in the U.S. because they pose a threat to the stability of the
western Balkans, which includes Croatian MP Ljubo Cesic Rojs, Mesic
said he had read about the list in print but that officially he did
not know who was on it because he had not seen it.
"I know there is a certain threat that movement will be prevented
for people helping those who aren't answering the Hague tribunal's
calls," said Mesic.
He said Croatia was a law-based state and voiced confidence
competent institutions were taking care of people familiar with the
whereabouts of fugitive Hague indictees. "I don't know how
cooperation with those who know that is proceedings, the question
should be put to the interior ministry," he said.
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