1200TH ANNIVERSARY OF 1ST CRO PARLIAMENT CELEBRATED

TOMISLAVGRAD, July 6 (Hina) - A multimedia project "Croatian Parliament" was on Friday opened in front of the Tomislavgrad Basilica (south-west Bosnia), which was built on the 1000th anniversary of the crowning of king Tomislav (1925). The prefect of the Herzeg-Bosnian County Filip Andric addressed the visitors on behalf of the host. Present at the ceremony were President of the Bosnian Federation Kresimir Zubak, president of the Constitutional Assembly of the Bosnian Federation Mariofil Ljubic, a Croatian Parliament envoy Vladimir Seks, Croatian President's Office envoy Andjelko Mijatovic, some fifty members of the Croatian Parliament and Federation Constitutional Assembly, provincial of the Herzegovian Francescan province father Tomislav Pervan and many other high officials from Croatia and Herzeg-Bosnia. "The aim of the multimedia project is to, through words and pictures, make the Croatian youth interested in deliberation of their one thousand year old history, but also of the modern times in which we again obtained the free and independent Croatia," president of the HDZ Youth Mario Kapulica said. "The Croat people in Bosnia-Herzegovina had great people through its history who were not allowed to be mentioned, so after 12 centuries we can finally celebrate and revive the memory of the first Croatian Parliament which took place on the historic Duvno Field where the first Croatian king, Tomislav, was crowned," Mariofil Ljubic said. Vladimir Seks recalled the chronology of historic events from the first Croatian Parliament and the creation of the Croatian state to recent events in which the Croat people won their independent country. Father Pervan called the whole of the Croat people to unite, saying that the young Croatian state still had many enemies. After the addresses, the choir and orchestra played an oratorio "King Tomislav" by a young Croatian composer from Varazdin, Davor Bobic, and librettist Boro Pavlovic. The audience greeted the performers with a long applause and the Croatian National Theatre from Split did a play "The First Croatian Parliament", whose author is Antun Abramovic and director Leo Katunaric. (hina) lm jn 061040 MET jul 96