OPPOSITION SIX HAND IN WRITTEN RESIGNATIONS ON PARLIAMENTARY DUTIES

ZAGREB, Nov 20 (Hina) - Representatives of six Croatian opposition parties on Friday handed to the president of parliament their resignations on all parliamentary duties, bar those as representatives. Fifty-six MPs of the Social Democratic Party, the Croatian Peasants' Party, the Croatian Social Liberal Party, the Liberal Party, the Istrian Democratic Assembly, and the Croatian People's Party resigned on over 100 parliamentary and related duties. The latter were duties in delegations to the Council of Europe, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Inter- Parliamentary Union, and functions in the Croatian Privatisation Fund, Croatian Radio-Television, etc. Resignations were also handed by MPs of the Istrian Democratic Forum, the Primorje-Gorski Kotar Party, and three independent minority MPs, said the current spokesman and coordinator of the opposition six, Radimir Cacic. The resignations were the result of the refusal of the governing Croatian Democratic Union to establish an investigating committee which was to determine whether there had been abuse in the work of Croatian security and intelligence services. Asked whether the opposition could change its mind with regard to announcements that the resignations could result in the suspension of Croatia in the Council of Europe, the new opposition six coordinator, Vlado Gotovac, asserted the decision on the resignations could not be altered before previous changes in the reasons which had urged them. (hina) ha jn