MEETING OF CROATIAN PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND RIGHTS OF ETHNIC AND NATIONAL COMMUNITIES OR MINORITIES

RIGHTS OF ETHNIC AND NATIONAL COMMUNITIES OR MINORITIES ZAGREB, Dec 27 (Hina) - Croatian Parliamentary Committee for Human Rights and the Rights of Ethnic and National Communities, or the Minorities discussed their work in the last two months. The President of the Committee Dr.Ljubomir Antic said that the Committee was especially active in connection with the problem of the disappeared persons and the problem of the flats owned by the former Yu-Army, the children's rights as they intend to work on the drafts for the legislation concerning the rights of the child. The Committee did not agree to include into the agenda the proposal by the Croatian Socio-Liberal Party (HSLS) on UNPROFOR's mandate as Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) members demanded that the proposal be first discussed at the HDZ Club. The carrier of the proposal Dr.Goran Granic stressed that the within the global resolutions of the problem of the war in the former Yugoslavia the Croatian issue keeps remaining aside, and that it is necessary to constantly keep reminding everybody that Serbia is the aggressor, that UNPROFOR did not fulfill its task and that the violence, crimes and evictions continue in the UN protected areas (UNPAs). The Committee did not accept the proposal by the member of the Serbian National Party Veselin Pejnovic asking for the condemnation of destroying of the Orthodox Church building in Karlovac and the members of the Committee warned that the Committee did not issue any similar statement on the destruction of hundreds of sacral structures during the Serbian aggression on Croatia. 271742 MET dec 93