ZAGREB, July 4 (Hina) - The Croatian parliament on Thursday discussed draft amendments to the law on the restoration of assets confiscated during the Yugoslav Communist rule. It was proposed that the amendments were adopted in the
urgent procedure.
ZAGREB, July 4 (Hina) - The Croatian parliament on Thursday
discussed draft amendments to the law on the restoration of assets
confiscated during the Yugoslav Communist rule. It was proposed
that the amendments were adopted in the urgent procedure. #L#
According to the amendments, the right to restitution and
compensation will be given not only to former owners who had
Croatian citizenship at the moment of the adoption of the said law,
but also to persons who were granted the citizenship later and even
to foreign nationals, if it is stipulated by bilateral agreements.
An extended group of persons entitled to the restitution could
lodge a request for damages within six months after the amended law
takes effect.
Damir Kajin of the Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS) asked that
5,236 persons, who were currently living in Italy and who abandoned
their Croatian citizenship for Italian, should be given the right
to ask the compensation for their property left in Croatia.
He proposed that the law should cover the period before the
Communist rule, i.e. the 1941-1945 Independent State of Croatia and
that Serbs and Jews, whose assets had been confiscated by those
authorities, could also ask for compensation.
MPs of other parliamentary benches expressed some objections to the
amendments.
(hina) ms sb