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LOWER HOUSE DISCUSSES RATIFICATION OF CONVENTIONS, BILATERAL TREATIES

TREATIES $ ZAGREB, Sept 17 (Hina) - On Wednesday the House of Representatives ended discussions on a dozen final bills on ratification of international conventions, agreements or bilateral agreements. During debates most of attention was devoted to a bill on ratification of a Croatian-Italian agreement on minorities rights. Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic said that this agreement enabled about 63,000 Italian Croats to get the status of a national minority for the first time. He added that the agreement was important to Croatian-Italian relations that were on ascending lines in politics and economy, and to the "rating" of Croatia in the Council of Europe. On behalf of the legislation committee, Vice Vukojevic, said that the agreement had many unclear or not precise parts which open possibilities of its different interpretations. He described as unacceptable a provision under which there was virtually no Croatia-Slovenian border for members of the Italian minority who live in Croatia and Slovenia. He stressed that out of nine articles of the agreement, seven regulated rights of Croatian Italians, whereas only one article referred to the rights of the Croatian minority in Italy. Furthermore, that article regulated Croatian minority rights superficially and vaguely, according to Vukojevic. The stand of this committee was supported by some deputies at the discussion. On behalf of the Istrian Democratic Alliance (IDS party), Ivan Jakovcic, said he was unpleasantly surprised by the stand of legislation committee members, and added that the treaty would, over the long term, positively influence the development of Istria and good relations between Croatia and Italy. At the end of the debate Granic described the agreement as a good deal between Croatia and Italy. According to Granic, there is a model of reciprocity which Croatia has achieved with Hungary, whereas in the agreement with Italy it could not be the case as the Italian minority is far better organised than Croats in Italy, who only be organised as a minority in Molise. It is up to Italian Croats to try to be better organised, and this agreement grants them all minorities rights. A discussion ended also on a final bill on ratifying an agreement between Croatia and Germany on the reception of returning refugees. Granic said there had been no problem in preparations of the agreement and told the parliament that Germany was still offering accommodation to two between three thousand Croatian refugees from the Danube area. The minister said that it was in the interest of Croatia that those refugees might come back very soon. (hina) jn mš 172120 MET sep 97

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