ZAGREB, Sept 28 (Hina) - During Thursday's meeting which Sabor Speaker Zlatko Tomcic held with heads of the parliamentary parties and representatives of the central headquarters for the protection of the dignity of the Homeland War it
was agreed that the headquarters' requests would be considered by the Croatian national parliament next week. On behalf of the benches' heads, Djurdja Adlesic, of the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) said their requests would probably be discussed within a topic headlined "the current political situation in Croatia with the emphasis on the security situation." Until that time the benches will prepare proposals in order to reach an acceptable solution. On Wednesday the headquarters insisted that the Government immediately revoke a decree which prevents investigations against Serb returnees, stop trials against the Croatian people as well as rescind provisions of the law on the
ZAGREB, Sept 28 (Hina) - During Thursday's meeting which Sabor
Speaker Zlatko Tomcic held with heads of the parliamentary parties
and representatives of the central headquarters for the protection
of the dignity of the Homeland War it was agreed that the
headquarters' requests would be considered by the Croatian
national parliament next week.
On behalf of the benches' heads, Djurdja Adlesic, of the Croatian
Social Liberal Party (HSLS) said their requests would probably be
discussed within a topic headlined "the current political
situation in Croatia with the emphasis on the security situation."
Until that time the benches will prepare proposals in order to reach
an acceptable solution.
On Wednesday the headquarters insisted that the Government
immediately revoke a decree which prevents investigations against
Serb returnees, stop trials against the Croatian people as well as
rescind provisions of the law on the amnesty of Serb criminals.
If the Government does not do so, then we ask that the equal
provisions of the amnesty act be applied for suspects from the
Croatian Army, the HQ's head said yesterday. He added the
headquarters also asked the national parliament to immediately
initiate a discussion on amendments to the law on the cooperation
with the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for former
Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Those were some of the demands which the HQ's head, Lieutenant Mirko
Condic, presented to Tomcic on Wednesday evening.
"(Thursday's) talks were very calm and we are obviously on the good
path to go out of this situation peacefully," Adlesic said after
today's meeting.
She added that there were no unreal demands at the meeting except
from a specific request of the strongest opposition party - the
Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) - that wanted a discussion on
asking Prime Minister Ivica Racan and Interior Minister Sime Lucin
to tender resignations, while the rest insisted that the situation
should first be assessed rather than proposing a no-confidence
motion.
The HDZ bench's leader Vladimir Seks said his party would like to
see a parliamentary debate on the President's, Premier's and some
government officials' moves which, according to the HDZ,
jeopardised the constitutional and legal order, as well as a
discussion on a declaration on the protection of the Homeland War's
values.
Yesterday we set a time term for Premier and Interior Minister to
explain to the Croatian public all circumstances of Milan Levar's
death in order to stop all manipulations and speculations.
Levar, interviewed in 1997 and 1998 by the International Criminal
Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) about the war events in his
hometown of Gospic in 1991, was killed in a bomb explosion in the end
of August this year in his yard in that central Croatian town.
In the mid-September a few Gospic residents were arrested on
suspicion of being implicated in the killing of ethnic Serbs in
1991. In the wake of their apprehension, headquarters were set up by
war veterans in several Croatian towns and cities for the
protection of the dignity of the Homeland War.
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