HDZ SIGNS COOPERATION AGREEMENT WITH ECOUNION, UNION OF ALBANIANS

ZAGREB, Nov 6 (Hina) - Representatives of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), the Croatian Green Party - Ecounion, and the Union of Albanians of Croatia on Thursday signed an agreement on cooperation, under which Ecounion and the Union of Albanians of Croatia will recommend that their members vote for the HDZ in the upcoming parliamentary elections. #L# The agreement was signed at a press conference by HDZ vice- president Jadranka Kosor, and the leaders of the Ecounion and the Union of Albanians of Croatia, Zlatko Sviben and Tom Marku. Commenting on Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidency member Slavko Linic's statement in an interview with today's "Vecernji list" daily that anyone voting for the HDZ had to be aware that in case the HDZ won the elections there would be no loans for citizens, but there would be loans for business failures of HDZ-sponsored tycoons, Kosor said it was during the term of the government whose member Linic was that the foreign debt grew to almost 21 billion dollars. Kosor appealed to the media to give the HDZ an equal chance as they were giving the other parties. She said that the HDZ was dissatisfied with yesterday's report by Croatian Radio about the its election rally in Vukovar, because the number of attendants was much higher than reported. (hina) rml