PARLIAMENT SPEAKER COMMENTS ON LATEST EVENTS IN SERBIA

PARLIAMENT SPEAKER COMMENTS ON LATEST EVENTS IN SERBIA ZAGREB, Oct 5 (Hina) - Croatian parliament speaker Zlatko Tomcic on Thursday evening commented to the latest developments in Belgrade, neighbouring Yugoslavia's capital rocked by violent demonstrations. He believes that anyone familiar with the situation in Serbia over the past decade could have expected some form of unrest after the refusal to recognise recent electoral results. Tomcic regretted that Serbia's people had to resort to demonstrations to acquire their rights, saying material damage and possible human victims were not a democratic way to do so. He was hopeful today's events would mark the beginning of democratic processes in Serbia. He believes a new leadership in Serbia might be promising for Croatia-Yugoslavia relations to enter the stage of normalisation. Milosevic's departure is an opportunity for relations in the entire region to normalise, which should enable Croatia to play the stabilising factor role, Tomcic said. He added, however, that anything might be expected from Milosevic. Tomcic said Milosevic was entirely unpredictable, and dared not predict what he might do. He said he never trusted Milosevic's good intentions or democratic orientation. (hina) ha