HDZ PLATFORM STARTING POINTS FOR TALKS ON COOPERATION BETWEEN HDZ

HDZ $ AND HSLS ZAGREB, 10 June (Hina) - The head of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) Group for Negotiations on Possible Cooperation With the Croatian Social-Liberal Party (HSLS), Ivic Pasalic, presented at today's press conference 'HDZ Platform Starting Points for Talks on Cooperation Between HDZ and HSLS', which consists of 19 items. A great majority of the Croatian public supported the adoption of a political agreement between the two political parties, which would secure Croatia's stability and strengthen its sovereignty. The text on the basis for agreement between HDZ and HSLS says that the two parties will continue to coordinate joint efforts in order to establish the territorial integrity of Croatia by carrying out the peaceful reintegration of the Croatian Danubian area; strengthen and preserve the Croatian state sovereignty; secure Croatia's admission to the European integration processes and refuse to accept Croatia's joining any Yugo-association. HDZ and HSLS will support implementation of the Washington, Dayton, Paris and other agreements; both parties agree that the reconstruction of the country and the solution of problems of all victims of war and their families are Croatia's top priority, the text says. 'HDZ and HSLS will do all they can to ensure that consistent respect for human freedoms and rights and the rule of law be implemented at all levels of state authority'. 'HDZ and HSLS will advocate and protect the independence of the media and freedom of press in line with the highest standards of developed European democratic systems, based on the principles of respect for the constitutional order, international conventions and freedom and responsibility of the individual'. 'The two parties will continue and speed up the rationalization of state administration; they will work on the modeling and implementation of the developmental economic policy which would secure high employment rates, and they will advocate the preservation and reconstruction of villages'. HDZ and HSLS, the text said, would 'actively advocate the establishment of Croatia as a social state and a state of social justice'. 'For the sake of successful implementation of the aforementioned principles, HDZ and HSLS accept that the establishment of all administrative and self-government bodies at all levels, starting from the municipal level, to the city and county and to the bodies of central state authority, be established on the basis of election results. This means that the party, which wins the majority of votes, gets the mandate to form the bodies of executive authority, with HDZ and HSLS participating in the forming of authority in accordance with their electoral results', the text says. (hina) rm jn 102056 MET jun 96