ZAGREB, Oct 21 (Hina) - The Croatian Government agrees that the US +Ambassador Montgomery's conduct is inappropriate, Croatian Prime +Minister Zlatko Matesa said at the Croatian National Sabor's +(Parliament) House of Representatives
session on Wednesday.+ The session started with question time during which Vlado Jukic, a +representative of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) asked Matesa +about the Government's opinion on Montgomery's recent appearance +at a student forum in Zagreb and on Croatian Radio Television.+ Jukic reminded that Montgomery talked about the non-transparency +of the military share of the Croatian state budget, criticised +certain laws and addressed economic and banking problems.+ Every Croatian citizen as well as political parties have the right +to criticise, from their own point of view, Government decisions, +the situation in the country and its economy
ZAGREB, Oct 21 (Hina) - The Croatian Government agrees that the US
Ambassador Montgomery's conduct is inappropriate, Croatian Prime
Minister Zlatko Matesa said at the Croatian National Sabor's
(Parliament) House of Representatives session on Wednesday.
The session started with question time during which Vlado Jukic, a
representative of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) asked Matesa
about the Government's opinion on Montgomery's recent appearance
at a student forum in Zagreb and on Croatian Radio Television.
Jukic reminded that Montgomery talked about the non-transparency
of the military share of the Croatian state budget, criticised
certain laws and addressed economic and banking problems.
Every Croatian citizen as well as political parties have the right
to criticise, from their own point of view, Government decisions,
the situation in the country and its economy, said Matesa.
The Croatian Prime Minister stressed that if somebody (on the
outside) constantly speaks about how the state should behave, which
laws are to be changed, then Croatia is facing problems.
A lot of intelligent people in Croatia, however, do not understand
this and believe that all good is coming from the outside and that
everything that is said about Croatia should be accepted without
question, Matesa added.
Matesa illustrated relations of the international community
towards Croatia by the example of Croatia's entry into the Phare
Programme. He reminded that he had signed the documents on entering
the programme in mid 1995.
The preamble of the document read that Croatia had fulfilled all
conditions for entry, while the law on Croatian Radio Television
and on elections were the same as now, Matesa added.
(Later that year the process of Croatia's entry to the Phare
Programme had been frozen due to the fact that Croatia had taken
action of liberating its occupied territory).
Matesa said that Croatian laws are made by the Parliament,
regardless of the majority in it.
Matesa informed Boris Kanadere of the HSP that the Government will
discuss the report on Croatia's cooperation with the International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in fifteen days, after
which the materials will be sent to the Sabor.
Kanadere said that the HSP had several times motioned for a
discussion on Croatia's cooperation with the Hague Tribunal,
particularly because of the unacceptable treatment of Bosnian
Croats known as the Vitez Group, who gave themselves up to the
Tribunal over a year ago. Indictments against Kordic and Cerkez
have not been sent to this day.
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