CRO GOVT DISCUSSES ON OFFICE FOR COOPERATION WITH HAGUE TRIBUNAL

ZAGREB, July 4 (Hina) - The Croatian government on Thursday discussed the Decree on the Office for Cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal, which was established as the government's administrative and professional service for cooperation between Croatia and The Hague-based Tribunal. The Decree was adopted in principle. The government will formulate the final text of one regulation, on whose logic the government members had remarks, at an inner cabinet session. The government formulated a Bill on the Confirmation of an Agreement Between the Governments of Croatia and Germany on the Re- programming of Croatia's Foreign Debt. Croatian Finance Minister Bozo Prka said that the Agreement was based on a General Agreement Between Croatia and the Paris Club, adding that Croatia's total debt to Germany amounted to DEM 540 million. The government delayed to take a stand on a Draft Decision on the Immunity of Vice Premier Borislav Skegro. A journalist of the Rijeka-based daily "Novi List", Edita Vlahovic, brought two legal actions against Skegro, for the endangering of safety and for slander. Skegro demanded that the government relieve him of immunity in order to be able to appear in court, but some ministers raised the question of the government's functioning. (hina) ha jn 041801 MET jul 96