HDZ PRAISES DECISION TO BREAK STRIKE

( Editorial: --> 3918 ) ZAGREB, June 26 (Hina) - The Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) on Friday praised the decision of protesting unions to break the strike in primary and secondary schools. "The decision shows that a feeling of responsibility towards students and parents has overcome the teachers," HDZ spokesman Drago Krpina told a press conference. By breaking the strike they display trust in parliamentary representatives to always work on improving the position of education workers, said Krpina. HDZ wholly supports the proposed programme for the return of displaced persons, refugees and exiled persons, assessing that it is in line with state political interests, Krpina said. It is wrong to reduce the programme to return of Croatian Serbs, because the programme is actually a wider Government concept in the solution of questions of return, reconstruction and normalisation of life in liberated territories, explained Krpina. Croats from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Yugoslavia, currently accommodated in buildings in the liberated parts of Croatia, can be fully secure because the programme also anticipates procedures for their possible moving, said Krpina. He recommended that those refugees do not be "duped by messages which evoke panic". (hina) as bag 261402 MET jun 98