ZAGREB, Oct 10 (Hina) - A petition of the Zagreb-based headquarters for the protection of the Homeland Defence War's dignity is one of the worst pamphlets published recently and had they been careful, soccer players would not have
signed it, Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan said today commenting on Monday's act of Croatian national team when they signed that petition. Threats and condemnations, expressed in the petition, against the democratically elected incumbent authorities in the country do not help those who have signed the paper and it also does not help Croatia's prospects, and will not shake the authorities, Racan added. Croatian PM maintained that the soccer players should not be held responsible for the act but those who induced them to sign the petition. "Anyway it is very well known to everybody that soccer players are very careful about what they are si
ZAGREB, Oct 10 (Hina) - A petition of the Zagreb-based headquarters
for the protection of the Homeland Defence War's dignity is one of
the worst pamphlets published recently and had they been careful,
soccer players would not have signed it, Croatian Prime Minister
Ivica Racan said today commenting on Monday's act of Croatian
national team when they signed that petition.
Threats and condemnations, expressed in the petition, against the
democratically elected incumbent authorities in the country do not
help those who have signed the paper and it also does not help
Croatia's prospects, and will not shake the authorities, Racan
added.
Croatian PM maintained that the soccer players should not be held
responsible for the act but those who induced them to sign the
petition.
"Anyway it is very well known to everybody that soccer players are
very careful about what they are signing when they sign contracts.
Had they done so this time I believe that the result would have been
different," Racan concluded
Croatia's entire soccer national team, led by the coach, Ciro
Blazevic, on Monday signed the headquarters' petition in Zagreb's
central square.
The headquarters blamed the current authorities for trying to
'transform' Croatian war veterans into war criminals and push
Croatia into 'Blakanoslavia'.
The headquarters also urges that the Croatian Constitution should
not recognise the anti-fascist councils of Croatia and Yugoslavia,
which set up, during World War II, the former Yugoslavia (Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) and Croatia as part of that state.
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