VUKOVAR, Dec 7 (Hina) - Asked by reporters when he expected the new government might be formed, Croatia's outgoing Prime Minister Ivica Racan said in Vukovar on Sunday "that should definitely occur by mid-January next year at the
latest".
VUKOVAR, Dec 7 (Hina) - Asked by reporters when he expected the new
government might be formed, Croatia's outgoing Prime Minister
Ivica Racan said in Vukovar on Sunday "that should definitely occur
by mid-January next year at the latest". #L#
"It would be good if the new government started working as soon as
possible and took over responsibility for the further development
of Croatia," Racan said.
He was also asked to comment on a statement made by Croatian
Democratic Union leader Ivo Sanader's envoy Florijan Boras at the
unveiling of a statute of late Croatian President Franjo Tudjman in
Bosnia-Herzegovina's Siroki Brijeg yesterday.
Some media have reported that Boras said, amongst other things,
that "Racan and his communists have humiliated Croats, the Homeland
War, war veterans and their mothers," and that Croatia "is
economically bankrupt and spiritually decroatianised".
In his comment today, Racan voiced hope that "Boras' statement is a
belated hate speech". "What's worrying is that it was made by
Sanader's envoy, but we're not afraid of revanchism."
Racan visited the easternmost town of Vukovar in his capacity as
president of the Social Democratic Party to meet with local party
officials.
Racan said the reconstruction and development of Vukovar, which
sustained extensive damage during last decade's Serbian
aggression, had been at the centre of the outgoing government's
work over the past four years.
He recalled the government had adopted the Law on the
Reconstruction and Development of Vukovar as well as a programme
for the town's reconstruction and development over the next four
years, when more than 1.5 billion kuna will be invested for that
purpose.
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