BELGRADE, June 22 (Hina) - The Yugoslav parliament's lower house on Friday ratified a trade agreement between the FRY (the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) and Croatia. Representatives of the Radical Party led by a notorious
nationalist, Vojislav Seselj, were the only ones to vote against the ratification. They justified their opposition with an explanation that the adoption of that agreement would mean the recognition of the existence of the Republic of Croatia. "The Radical Party will never recognise the occupation of the Republic of the Serb Krajina (by Croatia) as this the westernmost Serb state will again be re-established," Seselj said at the parliament. Krajina was a Croatian area held by Serb rebels during the Homeland Defence War. Seselj's speech was greeted with ironic and derisive smiles of other MPs and some of them responded to him. The Serbian minister of justice, Vladan Batic, and the Yugoslav
BELGRADE, June 22 (Hina) - The Yugoslav parliament's lower house on
Friday ratified a trade agreement between the FRY (the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia) and Croatia.
Representatives of the Radical Party led by a notorious
nationalist, Vojislav Seselj, were the only ones to vote against
the ratification.
They justified their opposition with an explanation that the
adoption of that agreement would mean the recognition of the
existence of the Republic of Croatia.
"The Radical Party will never recognise the occupation of the
Republic of the Serb Krajina (by Croatia) as this the westernmost
Serb state will again be re-established," Seselj said at the
parliament. Krajina was a Croatian area held by Serb rebels during
the Homeland Defence War.
Seselj's speech was greeted with ironic and derisive smiles of
other MPs and some of them responded to him.
The Serbian minister of justice, Vladan Batic, and the Yugoslav
interior minister, Zoran Zivkovic, reminded Seselj that the draft
free trade agreement between Zagreb and Belgrade was signed in 1997
by the then foreign ministers of Croatia and Yugoslavia, Mate
Granic and Zivadin Jovanovic respectively. At the time Seselj was
in coalition with Slobodan Milosevic's ruling party SPS, and his
radicals were memebrs of that government, they recalled
The lower house ratified a free trade agreement between the FRY and
Slovenia without any discussion.
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