ONLY ONE PARTY RESPONDS TO HDZ INVITATION FOR TALKS ON ZAGREB CRIS

ZAGREB CRIS $ IS ZAGREB, Oct 22 (Hina) - A meeting of leaders of the city committees of political parties represented in the Zagreb City Council failed to take place on Tuesday. Eduard Kunjko, president of the city committee of the Independent Croatian Democrats, was the only one to respond to an invitation by the Croatian Democratic Union. HDZ city committee president Zlatko Canjuga told a news conference that the failure of other parties to attend represented "a deliberate obstruction of a democratic dialogue in the City of Zagreb" and that they were afraid of "sitting at the negotiating table together with HDZ." Canjuga added that it was an attempt by other parties "to escape from the lost political battle and shift efforts at resolving the Zagreb crisis onto Parliament." HDZ would request a session of the City Council to motion a vote of no confidence in Council president Zdravko Tomac of the Social Democratic Party. HDZ would also request the opinion of the Administration Ministry on a decision by the six-party alliance to freeze their activities in the City and County Councils. Canjuga said that HDZ was still ready for a democratic dialogue with any party in order to resolve the government crisis in the capital. (hina) vm jn 221525 MET oct 96