BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO.3612 HINA ZAGREB, 28 APRIL 2000

HR-BULETIN-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO.3612 HINA ZAGREB, 28 APRIL 2000 LOWER HOUSE INITIATES AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUT. LAW ON MINORITIESZAGREB, April 28 (Hina) - The Croatian Sabor's House of Representatives on Friday by majority vote adopted a conclusion to initiate government-motioned amendments to the Constitutional Law on Human Rights and Freedoms and the Rights of Ethnic and National Communities or Minorities. The Lower House today ended its third session, which had begun on April 12. The adoption of the conclusion was preceded by a heated debate initiated by Furio Radin, a representative of the Italian minority, who demanded that an alternate model be found if provisions on districts were excluded from the Constitutional Law. Districts are defined as areas with a separate, self-governing, autonomous position. Mato Arlovic of the Social Democratic Party said Radin's demand was unacceptable as it could become the starting point for a federalisation of Croatia, which h