HDZ MARKS 12TH ANNIVERSARY OF BOMBARDMENT OF GOVT. BUILDING

ZAGREB, Oct 7 (Hina) - The Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) showed a video film in the party's main offices in Zagreb on Tuesday to mark the 12th anniversary of the bombardment of the government's offices and tomorrow's Independence Day. #L# "Those were dramatic historic events which we must not forget, not to live in the past, but to draw lessons from it," said Ivo Sanader, the president of the strongest opposition party. The HDZ is for the entry of Croatia and all its neighbours into the European Union, and maintains that all open issues with them should be solved in an atmosphere of cooperation and good neighbourly relations, Sanader said. He added that Croatia's determination to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity was crucial for its recognition by the international community. A senior HDZ official, Vladimir Seks, who was the president of the parliament at the time it declared the country's independence, said that the target of the then JNA aircraft's strike on the government's building, known as Banski Dvori, was the offices in which President Franjo Tudjman was staying at the time of the bombardment. According to Seks, this proves that there were agents in the building who were providing the enemy with information on Tudjman's whereabouts, but they have not yet been found. (hina) ms sb