BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH

HR-PRIVATISATION-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 5006HINA Zagreb, 6 July 2003PM SAYS IS DISSATISFIED WITH PRIVATISATIONDJAKOVO, July 6 (Hina) - Commenting on Croatian parliament president Zlatko Tomcic's recent statement that Deputy Prime Minister Slavko Linic had "made an issue of privatisation", PM Ivica Racan said on Sunday he did not take part in rows but that he, too, was unhappy with the privatisation process. Privatisation is scarce and the few companies that are privatised apparently cannot be privatised without excesses, he said. "Perhaps the minister of economy is right when he insists that we evaluate if we should privatise anything at all before elections, because evidently every step in the privatisation process is accompanied by increasing political tension," Racan said, adding that he could not accept claims that only one man was responsible for such a state of affairs. Reporters also asked for a comment on Tomcic's statement th