THREE OPPOSITION PARTIES SIGN COOPERATION AGREEMENT

ZAGREB, Nov 8 (Hina) - Leaders of the Croatian True Revival (HIP) and two regional parties - Hrvatski Proljecari (Croatian Spring Activists) and the Zagorje Democratic Party - on Friday signed an agreement on cooperation in order to prevent further divisions on the Croatian political scene and create an alternative to the current authorities. #L# Miroslav Tudjman, the HIP president, said they were gathered around a programme for the creation of a modern Croatian state and the political legacy of the first Croatian President, the late Franjo Tudjman, so as to help Croatia come out of the social and national crisis. Tudjman called on other kindred parties and associations to cooperate, not in bids to oust the incumbent authorities, but in attempts to draw up a programme for a modern Croatia. The Croatian nation and society are in the biggest crisis since 1991, as all that has been achieved is now brought into question, said Goran Dodig, the president of the Croatian Spring Activists. He said Croatia was in a process irreversibly heading towards the failure, which some would like to see as soon as possible. "We want to stop this and be an alternative, i.e. a moral political force," Dodig added. The president of the Zagorje Democratic Party, Stanko Belina, believes Croatia should be pulled out of the defensive position in relation to the international community in order to stop Zagreb from being a mere executor of its will. (hina) ms sb