ZAGREB, July 14 (Hina) - The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the international community are satisfied with the announced establishment of a new privately-owned national television in Croatia, the
spokesman for the OSCE Mission to Croatia, Peter Palmer, said in Zagreb on Wednesday. Speaking at a regular press conference of OSCE and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) missions, Palmer said international organisations active in Croatia believe a separate fourth national channel would be economically hardly viable due to the size of the Croatian market. The joint recommendation is to privatise the Croatian Radio-Television's third channel on clear and just terms, Palmer said. Answering a reporter's question referring to a demarche international community representatives presented to Croatia's foreign minister on Monday, Palmer said its principal aim was
ZAGREB, July 14 (Hina) - The Organisation for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the international community are
satisfied with the announced establishment of a new privately-
owned national television in Croatia, the spokesman for the OSCE
Mission to Croatia, Peter Palmer, said in Zagreb on Wednesday.
Speaking at a regular press conference of OSCE and United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) missions, Palmer said
international organisations active in Croatia believe a separate
fourth national channel would be economically hardly viable due to
the size of the Croatian market.
The joint recommendation is to privatise the Croatian Radio-
Television's third channel on clear and just terms, Palmer said.
Answering a reporter's question referring to a demarche
international community representatives presented to Croatia's
foreign minister on Monday, Palmer said its principal aim was to
once more accentuate the necessity of ensuring equal voting rights
to all Croatian citizens living abroad.
Many Croats live outside Croatia, Palmer said, especially those of
Serb nationality, who have no Croatian documents. The
international community wants the Croatian government to find a way
for them to realise their constitutional right to vote, he added.
The international community wished to point to this problem given
the talks currently being held on new electoral legislation and
rules, he added.
The OSCE Mission spokesman assessed the situation in the Danube
River Region, in easternmost Croatia, as stable. The number of
ethnically motivated incidents registered in June considerably
dropped in comparison to the month before, he stressed.
The situation is similar in central and southern Croatia, areas in
which the OSCE has its observers, Palmer said. Incidents in those
areas are more serious, but local police are very professional in
their performance, he added.
UNHCR Mission spokesman Andrej Mahecic said the mission last week
organised a meeting with representatives of the Croatian
government's Office for Displaced Persons and Refugees, to agree on
the repatriation of Kosovo refugees in Croatia.
The first group of 120 Kosovo refugees left Croatia last Saturday,
in the organisation of the Albanian Catholic Mission, he said.
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