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HINA Zagreb, 18.06.97 No of pages: 11 TUDJMAN'S STATEMENT ON OCCASION OF HDZ FOUNDATION ANNIVERSARY ZAGREB, June 18 (Hina) - The ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party marked the eighth anniversary of its foundation in a Zagreb
restaurant on Tuesday. On that occasion the HDZ leader and president of Croatia, Franjo Tudjman, gave an interview with Croatian television, which was broadcast in a late night news programme. The celebration brought together the founders of the HDZ, who had been persecuted by the communist regime which did not tolerate the display of Croatian national symbols, such as the flag, Tudjman said. We were forced to go underground when we presented a national and democratic programme to lead Croatia out of communism and the Yugoslav federation, which was a sort of a dungeon to Croatian people, he added. Tudjman said that in early 1990 it was still not clear whether Croatian communist authorities would allow his party to take part in the elections. "And tod