BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3752 HINA ZAGREB, 16 SEPTEMBER 2000

HR-POLITICS-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3752 HINA ZAGREB, 16 SEPTEMBER 2000 PRIME MINISTER RACAN REJECTS FINMIN'S RESIGNATIONZAGREB, Sept 16 (Hina) - Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan has refused the resignation tendered by Finance Minister Mato Crkvenac on Saturday. "I have rejected Minister Crkvenac's resignation. I cannot accept it, as I assess his work as good and the Government needs him. Crkvenac enjoys my confidence and the confidence of the entire Government, and I believe that after all he enjoys the confidence of a great part of the public," Croatian PM said on Saturday afternoon after Minister Crkvenac offered his resignation along with a decision that the Finance Ministry's instruction of September 11 limiting duty-free import of some groceries be no longer implemented as of Monday, September 18. "The intention of the instruction about restricting duty-free imports was good, and the target of that decree was the fight against black marketeering and organis