OPPOSITION LEADER COMMENTS ON LAW ON NATIONAL MINORITIES

RIJEKA, Dec 7 (Hina) - The Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) believes that national minorities' parliamentary representatives should be elected through party or independent lists in one state level electoral unit, HSP president Anto Djapic told reporters in Rijeka on Saturday. #L# Djapic said HSP's vote on the constitutional law on national minorities was closely related to the position and right to vote of Croatian emigrants who are not Croatian residents. Djapic said they should be enabled to vote by post. Djapic said the HSP did not have a problem with national minorities but that "some minority representatives behave as though they were the instruments of someone else's policy". He mentioned Serb representative Milorad Pupovac, saying he acted as if Croatia were his enemy, and Furio Radin, who Djapic said must implement the Croatian and not the Italian policy. The HSP leader objected to sending Croatian troops to Afghanistan, saying this would not bring Croatia closer to NATO as it had already been decided that Croatia would be admitted to the alliance together with Serbia. Djapic also commented on the social situation and the state of the shipbuilding industry, saying it was disastrous. (hina) ha