HOUSE OF COUNTIES' SPEAKER RESPONDS TO OPPOSITION'S OPEN LETTER

ZAGREB, July 15 (Hina) - Speaker of the Croatian Parliament's House of Counties Katica Ivanisevic responded today to an open letter by the Co-ordination of Croatian parliamentary opposition parties, in which the opposition expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that she had not called a session to discuss the role and mandate of the UN Protection Force in Croatia. The speaker reminds that the House of Counties discussed the UNPROFOR's inefficiency on 21 June 1994 and that it informed the House of Representatives about its views on that problem. At the initiative of the House of Counties, the House of Representatives decided to call an emergency session to discuss the UNPROFOR's mandate, said Katica Ivanisevic. "In that way each Parliament's house fulfills those tasks which are in conformity with its constitutional competencies," stressed Katica Ivanisevic. 152032 MET jul 94