ZAGREB, Sept 18 (Hina) - The Croatian government is not against a parliamentary debate on the implementation of an agreement on cross-border traffic and cooperation (SOPS) and if the topic is included in the agenda, the government
will submit a report on the implementation of the agreement, Prime Minister Ivica Racan said in parliament on Wednesday, commenting on requests of Opposition parliamentary benches that the implementation of the SOPS and relations between Croatia and Slovenia be discussed in parliament.
ZAGREB, Sept 18 (Hina) - The Croatian government is not against a
parliamentary debate on the implementation of an agreement on
cross-border traffic and cooperation (SOPS) and if the topic is
included in the agenda, the government will submit a report on the
implementation of the agreement, Prime Minister Ivica Racan said in
parliament on Wednesday, commenting on requests of Opposition
parliamentary benches that the implementation of the SOPS and
relations between Croatia and Slovenia be discussed in parliament.
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Racan said it was impossible to unilaterally change the
international agreement (SOPS), signed and ratified by both
parliaments, without serious consequences for the initiators.
"As a response to an announcement of the unilateral suspension of a
part of the SOPS, we received an announcement of the suspension of
the entire agreement," Racan told Zeljko Glavan of the Croatian
Social Liberal Party, and added Croatia must face consequences.
The prime minister said that talks on a temporary regime at the sea
were nearing the end. He stressed the regime should solve the issue
of commercial fishing. Racan said he believed that efforts invested
in the talks would manage to calm the situation until the final
agreement on the border issue was reached.
The Democratic Centre and the Croatian Party of Rights/the Croatian
Christian Democratic Union parliamentary benches requested that
the parliament holds a debate on relations with Slovenia, the
implementation of the SOPS and that the prime minister submits a
report on the talks with his Slovene counterpart.
Parliament president Zlatko Tomcic said the proposals had been
forwarded to the government to voice its opinion and provide
possible additional material.
The parliament endorsed a 55-item agenda, which includes a request
of about a dozen MPs to form a parliamentary commission of enquiry
which would investigate the responsibility of the Croatian War
Veterans' Ministry for the publishing of the names and disability
level of Croatian disabled veterans from Zadar and Osijek-Baranja
counties.
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