INT. AFFAIRS COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER LETTER FROM RETIRED GENERALS

ZAGREB, Feb 19 (Hina) - The presidency of parliament's Internal Affairs and National Security Committee will consider this week the demands from a letter nine retired generals forwarded the Committee last Friday, chairwoman Djurdja Adlesic told Hina on Monday. After the Committee's presidency has considered the demands, Adlesic will meet Prime Minister Ivica Racan and request his opinion. Said letter demands a complete and systematic protection of the Homeland Defence War, Croatia's early 1990s war of independence from the former Yugoslav federation. Adlesic told Hina most demands did not lay within the competence of the Internal Affairs and National Security Committee. She explained the demand to pass a law on the protection of the dignity of the Homeland Defence War was within the competence of the War Veterans Committee. Another one, that in cases referring to the liability of commanders and participants in that war parliament and other competent state bodies should first ask for their opinion, is within the competence of the government. Adlesic assessed as acceptable the demand to establish an institute for the research and documentation on the Homeland Defence War. She was unable to say if the Committee would convene for a session on letter, adding such a session was not urgent. (hina) ha