CROATIAN PENSIONERS SEND OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT TUDJMAN

( Editorial: --> 0108 ) ZAGREB, July 27 (Hina) - The national and Zagreb branches of the Croatian Pensioners' Society forwarded an open letter to President Franjo Tudjman on Monday. The pensioners expressed "embitterment and dissatisfaction" with the work of the state administration which, they said in the letter, wrongly informed the Croatian President about what had so far been done to improve the difficult situation 90 per cent of Croatian pensioners were in. The administration has neither improved the position of pensioners, nor has it implemented the Constitutional Court decision on the annulment of Pension Law provisions which stipulated restrictions on increasing pensions. The pensioners said in the letter they would not give up their constitutional rights and appealed to Tudjman not to allow "grey heads, that have honestly worked off their working life, to have to go out on the streets and prove their pension rights through protests". "We do not want to be classified as the socially vulnerable citizens of this republic, but we want the Constitutional Court decision to be implemented in full... We firmly believe that you will approach our problem conscientiously and that you will not allow yourself to be wrongly informed and undercut again," the pensioners said in the letter. (hina) lml jn /mbr 271647 MET jul 98