CROATIAN PARLIAMENT TO HOLD FORMAL SESSION TO MARK V-E DAY

ZAGREB, May 8 (Hina) - The Croatian Parliament is to hold a formal session tomorrow to mark the 50th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Fascist Coalition in World War II. The session will be addressed by Parliament speaker Nedjeljko Mihanovic. A delegation of the Committee for marking the 50th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Fascist Coalition will lay wreaths at the Altar of the Croatian Homeland at Medvedgrad, a medieval castle on Mount Medvednica overlooking Zagreb. They will lay wreaths at the graves of Vladimir Nazor, the Croatian poet, partisan and first president of the anti-fascist government of Croatia during World War II, and General Ivan Rukavina, the commander of the Croatian Liberation Army. Wreaths will also be laid at the 'Wall of Pain' which has been erected in front of the UN headquarters in Zagreb in memory of the people who have fallen and gone missing during Serbian aggression against Croatia. The delegation will lay wreaths in honour of all victims at the site of a World War II concentration camp at Jasenovac in the recently liberated region of western Slavonia. (hina) jn vm 081500 MET may 95