CROATIAN GOVERNMENT DISCUSSED ITS SO FAR WORK

JASENAK (BJELOLASICA), Sept 22 (Hina) - Members of the Croatian government and government coordination bodies on Friday morning met at the Olympic centre on Bjelolasica Mountain to discuss the so far work of the government in order to improve its efficiency. Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan said earlier this week there would be no reconstruction of the government, announced in media over the past several months which cited statements of senior officials. In seven months of the work of the coalition government, Prime Minister Racan was faced with resignations of his ministers on two occasions. Last week, Finance Minister Mato Crkvenac tendered his resignation to the Prime Minister. The resignation was offered 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 last Monday. Racan did not accept his resignation. Earlier this year, in May, the Prime Minister failed to accept the resignation offered by Interior Minister Sime Lucin. Minister Lucin offered his resignation after Croatian President Stipe Mesic criticised the work of the Interior Ministry. The meeting of government's coordination bodies and minister is the second great meeting in less than a month. Representatives of the government, trade unions and employers, met in late August in the Plitvice Lakes National Park, and discussed the economic strategy, amendments to the tax policy, social agreement and the projection of the budget over the next three years. A press conference is to be held after today's meeting. (hina) it jn