The Serb minority received 6.4 million kuna. The second largest sum of 5.1 million kuna was given to the Italian minority, while the Czech and the Hungarian minority received 2.7 million and 2.4 million kuna respectively. Other minorities received smaller amounts.
The Ivo Sanader cabinet also adopted a plan for humanitarian de-mining for this year which will require 302 million kuna. These funds should be sufficient for clearing 28 square kilometres of land suspected of being infested with mines.
Last year the average price of de-mining was 8.4 kuna per square metre (without Value Added Tax), and 28 square kilometres were cleaned of mines.
The Government amended the decree regulating the arrival and stay of foreign yachts and leisure boats in Croatia's territorial waters. The vessels in question still have to have vignettes, but the lists of guests can be expanded successively, and children under 12 need not be added to the lists.
At the start of today's session, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader called on local voters to go to polling stations for early local elections for the county assemblies of Dubrovnik and Pozega and the city councils of Velika Gorica and Stara Gradiska.
The results of the elections, which will be held on Sunday, 9 April, will be seen as a litmus paper showing the popularity of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and the strongest opposition party, the Social Democrat Party (SDP), among voters.