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SERB COMMUNITY REPS DISSATISFIED WITH TUDJMAN'S OFFICE STATEMENT

ZAGREB, May 24 (Hina) - Two Serb community representatives at the Croatian parliament on Monday voiced their dissatisfaction with a press release issued after their meeting with Croatian President Franjo Tudjman on May 21, but assessed the talks as positive. Speaking on behalf of the Serb representatives present at the talks with Tudjman, Jovan Bamburac said on Monday their opinion was that the talks had been "good and very concrete (...), of an informative-negotiating character, about very serious issues between serious and responsible people, and it was to be expected that it would be presented to the public in an equally serious manner." Bamburac said the Serb representatives were unpleasantly surprised at the statement released by Tudjman's Office after the meeting. "That statement is not only professionally utterly incorrect, but has also an extremely insult
ZAGREB, May 24 (Hina) - Two Serb community representatives at the Croatian parliament on Monday voiced their dissatisfaction with a press release issued after their meeting with Croatian President Franjo Tudjman on May 21, but assessed the talks as positive. Speaking on behalf of the Serb representatives present at the talks with Tudjman, Jovan Bamburac said on Monday their opinion was that the talks had been "good and very concrete (...), of an informative- negotiating character, about very serious issues between serious and responsible people, and it was to be expected that it would be presented to the public in an equally serious manner." Bamburac said the Serb representatives were unpleasantly surprised at the statement released by Tudjman's Office after the meeting. "That statement is not only professionally utterly incorrect, but has also an extremely insulting tone towards us three representatives at the Croatian National Parliament, but in a certain way also towards the President himself." "We protest against the mentioned statement and expect a public apology from the author, because we don't want to be manipulated in any way, which interpretation can very easily be derived from the statement," Bamburac said. The statement dated May 21 among else says, "In talks with the Serb representatives, the President resented that they have not condemned the crimes committed during the Yugo-communist and Great-Serbian aggression on Croatia, but are instead making statements saying that what happened in Croatia was a civil war, which is contrary to the truth and the clear stands of world leaders." According to Bamburac, "we didn't see the President's remark about the character of the war in Croatia as directly referring to us, because it probably resulted from the recent statement about a civil war in Croatia, which is certainly an important issue, but was not the point of our talks." President Tudjman's remark on the necessity for the Serb community to contribute to eastern Croatian village Berak's wives' and mothers' search for the truth about what happened to their dearest was, according to Bamburac, acceptable to the representatives of the Serb community. They also found acceptable Tudjman's remark about the necessity of abstaining from making any statements which might obstruct the search processes. "We did and could not see that statement as a reproach, but an invitation to act jointly," Bamburac said. He stressed that by reading the statement from Tudjman's Office, one could get the impression, and he believed many did, that the Serb representatives had been almost apprehended to the talks so that President Tudjman could "slap them on the wrist and lecture them on proper political behaviour as if they had been disobedient pupils. "Of course nothing of that is true and nobody lectured anybody, because neither did the President talk to us in that way, nor could we have accepted a talk so intoned without making comments." Bamburac explained that President Tudjman and associates received them at their request as representatives of the Serb community in Croatia, and added that the President was careful and understanding in hearing three, according to Bamburac actual issues related the Serbs' position in Croatia. These are the enforcement of the Amnesty Law, the Serbs' return to Croatia and the return of their property, and the electoral law issue. Bamburac said it was evident during the talks that it is necessary to be patient and persistent in jointly working along the line of the state policy on the peaceful reintegration and restoration of trust between Serbs and Croats, in eastern Croatia especially. President Tudjman "rightly pointed to the entire complexity in solving the mentioned problems, also because of the strong emotional component," said Bamburac. Speaking on behalf of the Serb National Council, which gathers several Serb organisations in Croatia, Milorad Pupovac called on the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and Croatian authorities to cooperate towards solving open issues as soon as possible. Speaking about the Kosovo crisis, the Serb MPs voiced their bitterness at NATO's increasingly stronger strikes against Yugoslavia, and supported President Tudjman's initiative for a political solution to the crisis. (hina) ha jn

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