ZAGREB, Oct 22 (Hina) - The Croatian Government has suggested that +the debts of companies, whose employees received minimum wages over +the past years, be written off in the interest of promoting the +reconstruction of the country's
war-ravaged areas.+ The loans in question amount to US$103 million, and were taken by +entrepreneurs, craftsmen and independent farmers for the payment +of minimum monthly salaries amounting to US$44.+ According to a bill on the writing-off of debts, they will not repay +these loans but use them for the restructuring and promotion of +their own economic development and the settlement of the liberated +areas.+ The Government adopted a set of legal proposals on confirming +international conventions, protocols and agreements signed with +other countries and sent into parliamentary procedure a bill on +confirming the changes to the Convention on the Protection of
ZAGREB, Oct 22 (Hina) - The Croatian Government has suggested that
the debts of companies, whose employees received minimum wages over
the past years, be written off in the interest of promoting the
reconstruction of the country's war-ravaged areas.
The loans in question amount to US$103 million, and were taken by
entrepreneurs, craftsmen and independent farmers for the payment
of minimum monthly salaries amounting to US$44.
According to a bill on the writing-off of debts, they will not repay
these loans but use them for the restructuring and promotion of
their own economic development and the settlement of the liberated
areas.
The Government adopted a set of legal proposals on confirming
international conventions, protocols and agreements signed with
other countries and sent into parliamentary procedure a bill on
confirming the changes to the Convention on the Protection of the
Mediterranean from Pollution.
Zeljko Luzavec, Minister of Maritime Affairs, Traffic and
Communications, said that Croatia would join Italy and Slovenia in
establishing a joint centre which would follow the entry of tankers
with hazardous cargo into the Adriatic Sea.
The Government also adopted a draft contract on Catholic religious
instruction in public schools and religious instruction in public
pre-school institutions.
Education and Sport Minister Bozidar Pugelnik said that it had been
agreed that the Education Ministry would hold an expert discussion
and, if necessary, invite representatives of the Croatian Bishops'
Conference, to discuss with them some provisions of the proposed
contract.
According to the document, Catholic religious instruction in
public and secondary schools would be compulsory for students who
chose it. Those students who chose religious instruction as a
compulsory subject should submit written statements to the
school's headmaster.
The Government also decided that Croatian representatives should
participate in a conference on the fate of the property from the
period of Holocaust, to be held in Washington between November 30
and December 3 this year.
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