ZAGREB, May 10 (Hina) - The report on exhumations carried out by Hague investigators in the Gospic area will be submitted in the next several days as soon as the bodies of state authority complete it, and MPs will have the opportunity
to discuss it, Prime Minister Ivica Racan said during question time at a session of the House of Representatives on Wednesday.
ZAGREB, May 10 (Hina) - The report on exhumations carried out by
Hague investigators in the Gospic area will be submitted in the next
several days as soon as the bodies of state authority complete it,
and MPs will have the opportunity to discuss it, Prime Minister
Ivica Racan said during question time at a session of the House of
Representatives on Wednesday. #L#
The Government will tomorrow discuss a bill on the revision of
transformation and privatisation and the bill will be sent into
parliamentary procedure during this month, the Prime Minister said
answering a question by Marijan Marsic of the Croatian Peasants'
Party (HSS).
Asked by Ingrid Anticevic Marinovic of the Social Democratic Party
(SDP) how he assessed the security situation in the country,
considering statements regarding road blockades and the
undermining of the tourist season, Deputy Interior Minister Josip
Fresk said the security situation was very good. The Ministry has
taken those threats seriously and will press charges against those
violating the law, he added.
Asked by HSP's Vlado Jukic how the Government intended to solve the
problem of Croat refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Yugoslavia,
Deputy Prime Minister Zeljka Antunovic said the Government would
secure social care and subsistence conditions for all Croats who
had sought refuge in Croatia. All those who wish to stay in Croatia
can rest assured that the Government will take care of them, she
added.
Asked by HSP's Boris Kandare when the bill on Croatian Radio
Television would be completed, Antunovic said the procedure of
drawing up the bill was nearing completion. There are still several
controversial regulations and the Government has therefore sought
the opinion of experts, which is the main reason for the delay, she
added.
Asked by Vesna Skare Ozbolt of the Democratic Centre (DC) what the
Government was doing to solve the problems of Croatian soldiers,
the Minister of Homeland War Soldiers, Ivica Pancic, said this
question was one of the priorities of the Croatian authority.
Accusations by some individuals that the Government is
criminalising the Homeland War and not caring for soldiers are
coming from those who are dissatisfied with the Ministry's attempts
to eliminate injustices which had been done systematically for
years, he added.
Pancic's answer prompted replies by Juraj Njavro and Milan Kovac of
the HDZ who said there had been no injustices done whatsoever as
well as that the former government had taken good care of soldiers.
Pancic said he was not claiming that Homeland War soldiers had not
been taken care of, however, the findings of the State Audit for
1998, which included numerous irregularities in the Ministry's
work, showed how Homeland War soldiers had been taken care of.
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