ICFY CO-CHAIRMEN INSIST TENTATIVE AGREEMENT NOT TO BE PUBLISHED

ZAGREB, Dec 1 (Hina) - I decided that the House of Representatives session should adjourn this afternoon because some parliamentary members of the opposition hindered its work, i.e. they made it impossible that the draft conclusions by the Home Affairs and National Security Committee be voted today, the deputy speaker, Vladimir Seks, who had chaired the session tonight said at a press conference by the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) club. The opposition's parliamentary members requested that they should be informed of the text of the tentative economic agreement between Croatian Government and Croatia's rebel Serbs, which is to be signed tomorrow. They said Belgrade media had already published the agreement. The tentative economic agreement had the character of the internal document of Croatia. If the Parliament were to discuss it, this would mean that the agreement was treated as an international document, and that the legality of the self- proclaimed 'Krajina' assembly was confirmed, Seks said. He said the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia (ICFY) co-chairmen, Lord David Owen and Thorvald Stoltenberg, also insisted that the document should not be revealed until it was signed because of political reasons. The Croatian Government respected this, he added. Seks said the tentative agreement, through which Croatia was trying for the "last time" to carry out the peaceful reintegration of occupied Croatian areas, included just names of the signatories, without their offices or the sides on whose behalf they sign. If the tentative agreement has been sign, it will be signed separately. In Zagreb Hrvoje Sarinic, head of the Croatian Government's delegation, is to sign the agreement in the mediation of the ICFY co-chairmen. After that the ICFY co- chairmen should depart for Knin, Seks said adding that its text would be published after the signing. He described the agreement as not being of the crucial importance for Croatia, but said it just arranged "technical details of the March 29 Agreement in Zagreb". (hina) mar ks mms 012156 MET dec 94