CRO TOP OFFICIALS RECEIVE WORLD VETERANS FEDERATION'S DELEGATION

ZAGREB, Sept 14 (Hina) - Croatia's President Stjepan Mesic and Sabor Speaker Zlatko Tomcic on Thursday separately received a delegation of the World Veterans Federation, led by the federation's Secretary-General Marek Hagmajer. The delegation included also members of the Association of the Croatian Homeland War Veterans (UHVDR), that had invited Hagmajer to visit Croatia. After the meetings, the UHVDR President Djuro Decak said both Mesic and Tomcic offered full support to the Federation to set up an institute which can tackle psycho-social consequences of the war. This initiative has already been supported by Croatian Veterans Minister Ivica Pancic. Hagmajer told today's press conference that the World Veterans Federation had proposed to the Croatian Government a united ministry which should be in charge of all categories of war veterans - both those from the Homeland War and those from the Second World war. A spokesman for the UHVDR, Branko Bosnjak, said that following their meeting with, Ivan Fumic, the head of the association of the WW II anti-Fascist veterans (SABH) on Wednesday, they were notified that Croatian Social Welfare Minister Davorko Vidovic had endorsed SABH requests that its members should be re-granted most of their rights. (hina) ms