TOMAC AGAINST PROTEST OVER KOSTUNICA'S ARRIVAL IN ZAGREB

VUKOVAR, Nov 18 (Hina) - Parliamentary deputy speaker Zdravko Tomac said on Saturday he was against a protest rally announced for Nov. 24, the day of the Zagreb Summit, by the Main Headquarters for the Protection of the Dignity of the Homeland Defence War. The Main Headquarters announced the protest over Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica's participation in the Zagreb Summit. Tomac said Kostunica's arrival was not a bilateral visit to Croatia. The protest "would be a failure which would play in the hands of those who want to say that we Croats are the same as those who had attacked us," he said in the eastern town of Vukovar, where he took part in the marking of a remembrance day for Vukovar victims killed by the Serb aggressor nine years ago today. Earlier today, the president of the Main Headquarters, Mirko Condic, said in Vukovar all headquarters resumed with sessions as of today and would continue until "the danger of fraternisation with Serbia is over." He stressed the members on the Main Headquarters most strongly objected to Kostunica's attendance at the Zagreb Summit. Headquarters for the protection of Croatia's early 1990s war of independence from the former Yugoslav federation were established in September following the arrest of a dozen persons suspected of war and other crimes, among whom had been members of the armed forces and participants in the Homeland War. They discontinued a month of daily sessions after parliament adopted a declaration on the war. (hina) ha