ZAGREB, Feb 18 (Hina) - The Croatian government on Wednesday evening proposed to parliament to ratify the Succession Agreement in an urgent procedure. Croatia is the only successor country to the former Yugoslavia which had not yet
ratified the said agreement.
ZAGREB, Feb 18 (Hina) - The Croatian government on Wednesday evening
proposed to parliament to ratify the Succession Agreement in an urgent
procedure. Croatia is the only successor country to the former
Yugoslavia which had not yet ratified the said agreement.#L#
The agreement was signed in late June 2001 in Vienna. Should
parliament ratify it, the agreement could go into force two and a half
years after the signing.
Some property will be restitutied to Croatia with the ratification of
the agreement, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said.
The successor countries to the former Yugoslavia reached an agreement
about the succession at negotiations which were held in Vienna on May
14-25, 2001. The succession agreement was signed in Vienna on June 29,
2001.
The head of the government's succession office, Bozo Marendic, said
that the former authorities did not ratify the agreement after they
established that a total of US589 million, which belonged to all
successor countries, went missing from the accounts in joint banks.
The government said it would continue to take actions aimed at
shedding light on the missing money.
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