BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH

HR-LAW-PARLIAMENT-Kriminal/zakonodavstvo/pravosuđe BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3167HINA Zagreb, February 5, 1999LOWER HOUSE CONTINUES DEBATE ON COOPERATION WITH HAGUE TRIBUNALZAGREB, Feb 5 (Hina) - On Friday, the Croatian Sabor's House of Representatives continued a discussion on cooperation between Croatia and the Hague-based International War Crimes Tribunal, initiated by the benches of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party and the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP). The head of the HDZ bench, Vladimir Seks, reiterated that his party demanded neither the discontinuation nor the suspension of cooperation with the Tribunal. The HDZ did not ask for the suspension of the Croatian Constitutional Law on the matter, he said. According to Seks, the Croatian ruling party insisted on the reviewing the work of the UN Tribunal and establishing whether the Hague Tribunal and the Chief Prosecutor were acting in conformity with decisions of the UN Securi