BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 5002

HR-BULLETIN-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 5002 HINA Zagreb 2 July 2003PRESIDENT MESIC ADVOCATES POSITIVE MINORITY DISCRIMINATIONZAGREB, July 2 (Hina) - Addressing a conference on minority integration in Zagreb on Wednesday, Croatian President Stjepan Mesic advocated the principle of positive discrimination of minorities in Croatia, which already enjoy the same rights as the majority people. "Members of minorities enjoy absolutely the same rights as the majority people, in line with the law that we adopted recently. I would make a step further and apply the principle of positive discrimination, however, by all indications, conditions for that have not been created yet," Mesic said at the International Conference on Minority Integration in South-East Europe and the Baltic. The conference, which is held at Zagreb's "Opera" hotel, was organised by the OSCE Mission to Croatia and the Zagreb-based Institute for International Relations, with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Fo