DJAPIC: INTERVIEWS WITH TWO GENERALS FINAL ACT OF PRESSURE BY ICTY

OSIJEK, Nov 16 (Hina) - Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) leader Anto Djapic said in Osijek on Saturday that statements about the questioning of generals Mladen Markac and Ivan Korade by investigators of the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague were "the final, terrible act of political pressure on the Croatian state and Croatian generals". #L# Djapic told reporters in Osijek that his party had been warning for years that the tribunal, as a political instrument, would eventually "determine the composition of the Croatian army and the political scene". By forwarding the indictment against Bobetko to the competent court, Prime Minister Ivica Racan went back on his promise that he would take no such action without consultations with and the consent of the parliament, Djapic said. "This means that the government has given up its legal dispute with the tribunal because it decided to forward the indictment, which contains some absolutely unacceptable elements, even before the tribunal's Appeals Chamber made a decision (on Croatia's two appeals to the Bobetko indictment)," Djapic said. Commenting on a constitutional bill on national minorities, Djapic said it was unacceptable that the "model of election of minority MPs is the main issue of minority status in Croatia". The HSP opposes the proposal on a separate minority constituency as well as the proposal that the number of minority representatives in the executive authorities depend on their share in the overall population. (hina) rml