DELEGATION OF COUNCIL OF EUROPE VISITS CROATIAN PARLIAMENT

ZAGREB, May 5 (Hina) - The chairman of the Croatian Parliament, Stjepan Mesic, received today a delegation of the Council of Europe's standing conference on local and regional authorities, led by the conference's executive secretary, Rinaldo Locatelli. At their meeting the chairman Mesic spoke of the causes of the Serb aggression against Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. "If the Greater Serbia could be realized, it would be an incentive for other aggressors to follow such methods of seizing territories that belong to another countries," said Mesic adding that "if the world does not think of honouring its word that borders cannot be changed by force, it has to let Croats and Moslems arm themselves." The delegation of the standing conference on local and regional authorities was also received today by the deputy chairman of the Croatian parliament, Dr. Zarko Domljan. During their meeting they discussed the electoral system and the structure of the local self-government in Croatia. 052134 MET may 94