SDP OBJECTIVE IS TO REALISE ECONOMIC GROWTH OF MORE THAN 5%

KARLOVAC, July 20 (Hina) - The objectives of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) are the continuation of economic growth of more than five percent, accelerated employment in stable conditions and a low inflation rate which will lead to better living standards, Croatian Finance Minister Mato Crkvenac said Sunday. #L# "At the same time, the country will insist on infrastructure -- the construction of highways and modernisation of railways, as well as the internalisation," Crkvenac said at today's SDP informal working meeting in the 7th electoral unit. "Internetisation is also infrastructure and just as roads and railways are important for the state, informatisation with internetisation is important for business activities," he said. Snjezana Biga Friganovic, chairwoman of the parliamentary committee on labour, social policy and health care, said that in the past period the health reform was completed as far is legislation was concern. "In the next mandate we must implement the reform," she said. Croatian War Veterans' Minister Ivica Pancic said the situation with war veterans had also been significantly changed. (hina) it