ASSOCIATION OF DISABLED WAR VETERANS (HVIDRA) STAGES PEACEFUL PROT

PROT $ EST MEETING IN ZAGREB ZAGREB, 15 Sept (Hina) - Some 4,000 disabled war veterans from all Croatian counties gathered for a peaceful protest meeting at St Mark square in central Zagreb on Sunday. The main request of the Croatian Association of Disabled War Veterans (HVIDRA), which staged the meeting, was the full application of all legal rights of disabled war veterans. The meeting was addressed by the HVIDRA President Marinko Liovic, Defence Minister Gojko Susak, who came to the meeting as President Tudjman's special representative, Parliament Vice President Jadranka Kosor and Interior Minister Ivan Jarnjak. #L# At its convention held yesterday in Zagreb, HVIDRA adopted a memo demanding that the names of persons who had been charged with the violation of privatisation laws, causing considerable reduction of financial means necessary for a proper care for Homeland war victims, be made public. The memo also demanded that the terms such as Homeland defender, hero, deserter and war profiteer be defined. Government and Parliament representatives, who addressed the meeting, promised to speed up the solution of problems of disabled war veterans and check every three months whether there has been any improvement in the exercise of rights of disabled war veterans. HVIDRA President Liovic closed the meeting, stressing that the United Nations Transitional Administration in the Croatian Danubian area (UNTAES) should not be allowed to extend its mandate. (hina) rm 151609 MET sep 96