ZAGREB, Oct 15 (Hina) - MPs of the Istrian Democratic Assembly partyand the Italian minority, Damir Kajin and Furio Radin respectively,have said the offensive poster which appeared on the Italian Consulatebuilding in Split on Thursday
was the consequence of a wronginterpretation of Italian Deputy Prime Minister Gianfranco Fini'sclaims in a Croatian newspaper as well as of some Croatian MPs'reactions to them.
ZAGREB, Oct 15 (Hina) - MPs of the Istrian Democratic Assembly party
and the Italian minority, Damir Kajin and Furio Radin respectively, have said
the offensive poster which appeared on the Italian Consulate building in Split
on Thursday was the consequence of a wrong interpretation of Italian Deputy
Prime Minister Gianfranco Fini's claims in a Croatian newspaper as well as of
some Croatian MPs' reactions to them.Kajin told the press in Parliament the statements of right-wing Croatian
MPs played in the hands of extremists in Italy whose claims he said should be
fought through the protection of human rights, tolerance and economic
success.
Kajin said that Fini, "although certainly personally nostalgic, said in
Slobodna Dalmacija for the first time that nobody serious is thinking about
returning (the Croatian coastline area) to Italy".
Radin said that Italians living in Istria County and Rijeka are mainly
the ancestors of antifascists who did not agree to emigration and assimilation
but opted for coexistence.