PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES CALLED ON TO DISCUSS WATER SHORTAGE

ZAGREB, June 8 (Hina) - Member of Croatian Parliament Drago Krpina on Wednesday called on the parliamentary human rights and home policy committees to convene a joint session on the "dramatic water shortage in the Biograd area," not later than June 15, 1994. Describing the cutting of water supplies to 200,000 citiznes of Zadar and Biograd and 30,000 refugees accommodated there as a "blatant breach of the human rights legislation" and yet another "genocidal action of Serb guerrillas," Krpina warned that the Zadar area was threatened by a hygienic catastrophe. Serb forces stationed in the UNPA South have cut the water supplies from the Zrmanja River and a spring near the village of Kakm (5 km N. of Biograd). Other sources on the free Croatian territory are just enough to fill the main for 2 hours a week, and the residents have to ship in water by sea. Although the March 29 Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities in Croatia places the Kakma source in the disengagement zoen and thus under exclusive UNPROFOR control, "the water shortage is still going on, owing to the Serb guerrilas' blackmail and the irritating irresolutenes of UNPROFOR," said Krpina. Krpina said that public protests, including the holding up of UNPROFOR vehicles, may shortly be expected in the Zadar-Biograd area. 081646 MET jun 94