GENEVA: ANTUNOVIC SPEAKS BEFORE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

GENEVA, March 19 (Hina) - Croatian Deputy Prime Minister Zeljka Antunovic, who is heading a state delegation attending the 58th session of the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva, informed the Commission about the human rights situation in Croatia on Tuesday. #L# Speaking on the second day of the session, Antunovic said that Croatia "has made progress in the protection and promotion of human rights over the past year". Croatia is satisfied with the hand-over of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to the Hague war crimes tribunal and continues to insist on the hand-over of the "Vukovar Three", she said. The Geneva conference is the biggest regular annual meeting on human rights on the global level. (hina) sb rml