ZAGREB, Dec 5 (Hina) - MPs of the opposition's Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) on Thursday sent an open letter to President Stjepan Mesic, urging him not to sign a decision on sending Croatian troops to Afghanistan as part of a U.N.
peace mission.
ZAGREB, Dec 5 (Hina) - MPs of the opposition's Croatian Party of
Rights (HSP) on Thursday sent an open letter to President Stjepan
Mesic, urging him not to sign a decision on sending Croatian troops
to Afghanistan as part of a U.N. peace mission. #L#
"This luxury of pretending to be a super power on Afghan soil will
cost Croatia US$6 million annually, while the (possible) wounding
and death of our soldiers (in those missions) are not at all
regulated by our laws," HSP's deputies in parliament say in the
letter to Mesic and Prime Minister Ivica Racan.
The HSP MPs urge the government to re-examine the policy of
admission to NATO "because such acts on the government's part mean
nothing other than Croatia buying membership in NATO with the lives
of its soldiers on Afghanistan's soil".
Based on a decision on the participation of Croatian troops in a
peace mission to Afghanistan, which parliament debated yesterday,
starting with next year, 44 soldiers from the military police would
take part in peace operations within the German brigade in the NATO-
led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in
Afghanistan.
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