BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3472 HINA ZAGREB, DECEMBER 13

HR-FUNERAL-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3472 HINA ZAGREB, DECEMBER 13 PRESIDENTIAL PALACE BIDS FAREWELL TO LATE PRESIDENT TUDJMANZAGREB, Dec 13 (Hina) - The cortege with the coffin of Croatian President Franjo Tudjman set out from the Presidential Palace toward the central Mirogoj cemetery at 11.15am Monday. The President's Chief-of-Staff Ivica Kostovic bid farewell to the President on behalf of the President's Office staff. As the first president of Croatia, Dr. Tudjman made the most important decisions for the Croatian people and state at the Presidential Palace, Kostovic said. "We, your associates, who have had the honour and privilege to work with you silently, invisibly, and in an self-effacing manner, are witnesses to what the public sometimes failed to notice: that you worked day and night for Croatia, without sparing your health, full of self-sacrifice and discipline, setting an example not only to all of us but also to the entire state administration and nation.