SKARE-OZBOLT SERIOUSLY THINKING ABOUT HER ACTIVITY IN HDZ

ZAGREB, Feb 29 (Hina) - Vesna Skare-Ozbolt, the former vice president of the formerly ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), on Tuesday did not want to comment on allegations that she and HDZ vice president Mate Granic would form a new party. Skare-Ozbolt, who yesterday tendered her resignation on duties in the HDZ, today said she was giving serious thought to everything that was going on in the HDZ and her activities in the party, and that she had yet to decide. Skare-Ozbolt resigned on the duty of HDZ's vice president after some members of the HDZ presidency on behalf of the party voiced dissatisfaction with her decision to remain working in the Office of the President of the Republic as Croatia's newly-elected President Stipe Mesic's adviser. Tendering her resignation, Skare-Ozbolt reminded she had handed Mesic a resignation to her former function as the president's deputy chief-of-staff. She said Mesic asked her to stay for some time. "I accepted his demand because I think it is normal and civilised behaviour," Skare-Ozbolt says in the resignation and, disappointed with reactions in her party, voices hope the HDZ will not elect such a presidency ever again. Asked if she was going to accept the position of president's adviser on internal affairs, Skare-Ozbolt said she would decide after talking to President Mesic. (hina) ha jn