ZAGREB, Nov 19 (Hina) - President of Zagreb's Centre for the Protection of the Dignity of the Homeland Defence War, Ante Carapovic, on Sunday confirmed all 12 Croatian centres would hold protests during the Zagreb Summit, on November
24 and 25. The protests will last two days and one night, and we will inform in advance the Interior Ministry and police about the protest, Carapovic told a news conference. He stressed they will try to rally as close to the Intercontinental Hotel, where the Summit is taking place. President of the pivotal Centre from Split, Mirko Condic, said the main reason for the rally was the centre held the unconditional reception of "the so-called democratic president of Yugoslavia as morally impermissible, as (Yugoslavia) brought evil, suffering and harm to Croatia, and (President Vojislav Kostunica) neither extended an apology to the Croatian people for aggression, nor has he shown
ZAGREB, Nov 19 (Hina) - President of Zagreb's Centre for the
Protection of the Dignity of the Homeland Defence War, Ante
Carapovic, on Sunday confirmed all 12 Croatian centres would hold
protests during the Zagreb Summit, on November 24 and 25.
The protests will last two days and one night, and we will inform in
advance the Interior Ministry and police about the protest,
Carapovic told a news conference.
He stressed they will try to rally as close to the Intercontinental
Hotel, where the Summit is taking place.
President of the pivotal Centre from Split, Mirko Condic, said the
main reason for the rally was the centre held the unconditional
reception of "the so-called democratic president of Yugoslavia as
morally impermissible, as (Yugoslavia) brought evil, suffering and
harm to Croatia, and (President Vojislav Kostunica) neither
extended an apology to the Croatian people for aggression, nor has
he shown any intention of compensating damage done to Croatia to the
amount of 35 billion dollars."
According to Condic, some people in Croatia "like slaves avoid this
issue and the crucial question -- the whereabouts of missing and
imprisoned Croatian soldiers and civilians, as well as the
punishment of those responsible for mass graves".
Asked why stage a protest against Kostunica when in fact the Zagreb
Summit was not a bilateral visit but an international conference,
the Centre's officials said they would be protesting against the
conference "which imposes on Croatia the heir to the executioner
Slobodan Milosevic's".
Centre members stressed they wanted a European Croatia and
individual approach to the European Union. They asked whether
Europe took Croatia seriously when it allowed what had occurred
during the aggression in Vukovar, Skabrnja and other Croatian towns
and cities.
"We are witnesses to a reiterated statement by Croatia's President
Stipe Mesic, who said in Dayton Croatia had had similar pretensions
as Serbia".
Condic holds this was evidently an attempt to equalise the Croatian
victim and Serb aggressor.
Condic called on President Mesic to publish the contents of his
closed-door testimony before the international war crimes tribunal
in The Hague.
If he does not do so, Condic said the centre would "initiate the
establishment of a commission of enquiry to investigate the
endangering national security and submit a request to the
Parliament".
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