CROATIA PREPS FOR RATIFICATION OF EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS CONVENTION

RIGHTS CONVENTION $ DUBROVNIK, Sept 1 (Hina) - A Croatian government working group for investigating the compatibility of Croatian law with regulations of the European Convention and Protocol, began a four-day session in Dubrovnik on Monday. Participating in the session which is presided over by Deputy Vice- President Ljerka Mintas-Hodak, are representatives of the Croatian government, Parliament, Constitutional Court, Faculty of Law in Zagreb, as well as a delegation of the Council of Europe headed by the head of the Human Rights Directorate, Mark Neville. The aim of the session is the drafting of the final version of the working group's report, as well as ratification preparations of the European Convention for the protection of human rights and basic freedoms and protocols, to which Croatia is committed one year since its access into the Council of Europe. (hina) lm jn 011527 MET sep 97