NEXT WEEK 1ST WITNESS ON REMOVED TERRITORIAL DEFENCE WEAPONRY

ZAGREB, Apr 26 (Hina) - Next week the first witness will appear before a Croatian parliamentary commission of inquiry probing into circumstances of the guilt of state and political bodies of the former Socialist Republic of Croatia for the removal of Croatia's Territorial Defence (TO) weaponry up to May 30, 1990. The witness, Croatian Army Lt. Col. Djuro Tihomirovic, an attorney who worked at the TO, will appear before the commission on May 3 to elaborate on TO's organisational structure in the period being probed. Commission of inquiry member Vice Vukojevic believes the Defence Ministry must be requested to submit the entire documentation related to the TO, the parliament to submit all laws related to the TO, and that all commanders and chief of TO headquarters from the municipalities whence the weaponry in question was taken should be interrogated. The establishment of the commission was initiated by parliamentary representatives of the Croatian Party of Rights, while a decision on its establishment was passed by the parliament on March 26. The commission should in six months focus on finding out who passed the decision on the withdrawal of the TO weaponry, how the decision was carried out and who in Croatia carried it out, whether there were institutions or persons who opposed it and who these were, the type and quantity of the removed weaponry, which institutions or persons received it, and how much money the Republic of Croatia lost as a result. (hina) ha