BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4615 HINA ZAGREB, MAY 10

HR-bulletin-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4615 HINA ZAGREB, MAY 10 EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE BEGINS IN ZAGREBZAGREB, May 10 (Hina) - Croatian parliament president Zlatko Tomcic on Friday opened a conference of European parliamentary assembly presidents, a two-day event which has pooled in Zagreb more than 400 participants, including some 70 presidents and vice presidents of member-country parliaments. Tomcic said in his opening address the conference was an attempt to jointly find adequate answers to the growing threat of terrorism, a plague which he said constituted a danger to the basic principles of the international order and, therefore, called for joint and legitimate preventive actions. In every legitimate struggle, including the one against terrorism, human rights and freedoms have to be respected, said Tomcic. It is necessary to fill the extant void in international law with a comprehensive convention against international terrorism, he added. "If democrac