CRO HELSINKI COMMITTEE & DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT FOR BANNING HSP

ZAGREB, Sept 13 (Hina) - The Croatian Helsinki Committee (HHO) and the Croatian Movement for Democracy and Social Justice on Monday urged the Croatian parliament and ombudsman to initiate proceedings before the Constitutional Court to ban the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP). According to a joint statement, read to the press by HHO vice president Jasminka Domas-Nolbastic, the appeal was made "due to HSP president Anto Djapic's appeal to Croatian generals to prevent the implementation of the Constitutional Law on cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague." The HHO also demands the initiation of proceedings which would control the constitutionality of HSP's programme and activity. "HSP's current appeal to the Croatian army is a clear announcement of the desire of HSP leadership's to organise an extra- constitutional power system, which could be used for the establishment of dictatorship during the time of the transfer of authority in the pre- and post-electoral period," the statement says. HHO president Vjekoslav Vidovic said the HHO had already appealed the state attorney to initiate criminal proceedings against Djapic. Responding to the press, Vidovic said the HHO would sue Djapic if the State Attorney's Office failed to do so. (hina) ha jn