SPLIT, Aug 20 (Hina) - "We must no longer wait with the solving of problems," President Stipe Mesic told Slobodna Dalmacija daily of Monday, voicing confidence that "in the autumn, the government will react more effectively and
explain to people why we have to take certain, even very drastic measures." "There is no enigma here and it should be stated clearly how long these measures are going to take and what their effects will be," the President said, adding this would be the topic of his impending talks with Prime Minister Ivica Racan. According to Mesic, there is a core in Croatia thinking the entire Croatian public has "forgotten the wrong policy in BH (Bosnia-Herzegovina), the plunder, the tycoons... as though people didn't know the authority in the past ten years was in the hands of the HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) and that the current problems are the result of that rule." "In the past 18
SPLIT, Aug 20 (Hina) - "We must no longer wait with the solving of
problems," President Stipe Mesic told Slobodna Dalmacija daily of
Monday, voicing confidence that "in the autumn, the government will
react more effectively and explain to people why we have to take
certain, even very drastic measures."
"There is no enigma here and it should be stated clearly how long
these measures are going to take and what their effects will be,"
the President said, adding this would be the topic of his impending
talks with Prime Minister Ivica Racan.
According to Mesic, there is a core in Croatia thinking the entire
Croatian public has "forgotten the wrong policy in BH (Bosnia-
Herzegovina), the plunder, the tycoons... as though people didn't
know the authority in the past ten years was in the hands of the HDZ
(Croatian Democratic Union) and that the current problems are the
result of that rule."
"In the past 18 months, this incumbent government has been trying to
solve those problems, but I too reproach the government and many
responsible people in Croatia for not being expeditious enough,"
said the President.
Asked about Prevlaka, Croatia's southern-most tip which borders on
the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro, Mesic said he and Montenegrin
President Milo Djukanovic had assessed Prevlaka was a security and
not territorial issue.
"There is no doubt that that is Croatian territory and next year we
shall be there," Mesic told Slobodna Dalmacija. Currently a mission
of United Nations observers is deployed on the peninsula.
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