CRO PRESIDENT LAYS WREATH ON HOMELAND'S ALTAR

ZAGREB, Aug 5 (Hina) - After being sworn in on occasion of Croatia's Homeland Thanksgiving Day, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman laid a wreath on the Altar of the Croatian Homeland in Medvedgrad Tuesday at noon. After laying the wreath, President Tudjman wrote the following in the Guest Book: "On the occasion of taking the solemn oath at the beginning of my second term in office, I have laid a wreath on the Altar of the Homeland in honour of all those who lived and died for the realization of Croatia's freedom in independent, sovereign and democratic Croatia. In Medvedgrad, on Homeland Thanksgiving Day, 5 August 1997, the President of the Republic of Croatia Franjo Tudjman." President Tudjman was accompanied by his wife Ankica, parliament president Vlatko Pavletic, the president of the parliament's House of Counties, Katica Ivanisevic, Tudjman's chief of staff Hrvoje Sarinic, Interior Minister Ivan Penic, Deputy Defense Minister Kresimir Cosic, the Croatian Army's chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Pavao Miljavac, the president of the Supreme Court, Milan Vukovic, the president of the Constitutional Court, Jadranko Crnic, and Tudjman's chief aide-de-camp Major General Kresimir Kaspar. (hina) ha jn 051521 MET aug 97