PULA, Sept 5 (Hina) - A member of a committee urging the organisation of a referendum to revise the sale of land in Istria, Nenad Klapcic, told reporters on Friday committee members were satisfied with this week's talks with President
Stjepan Mesic, whom they acquainted with their campaign to collect more than 12,000 signatures to hold a referendum on the issue.
PULA, Sept 5 (Hina) - A member of a committee urging the
organisation of a referendum to revise the sale of land in Istria,
Nenad Klapcic, told reporters on Friday committee members were
satisfied with this week's talks with President Stjepan Mesic, whom
they acquainted with their campaign to collect more than 12,000
signatures to hold a referendum on the issue. #L#
Klapcic said that Mesic was surprised at the fact that local
authorities had not been included in the "Brijuni - Rivijera"
project from its start.
"We drew the President's attention to the unacceptable practice of
selling land in the areas of Barbariga and Dragonera before the
adoption of changes to the physical plan by the county assembly,"
Klapcic said, adding that the committee would continue mobilising
the public, which he believes "has realised that this is about
selling land to foreigners rather than about tourist
development".
Klapcic said that the committee would continue with its activities
until the County Assembly's harmful decisions were annulled and the
privatisation of land in Istria over the past several years was
revised.
"If the County Assembly and its leadership are confident that the
land opposite Brijuni was sold regularly... we see no reason why
they would obstruct a referendum on the future of our valuable
coast," Klapcic said.
He called on parliamentary deputy Damir Kajin of the Istrian
Democratic Assembly (IDS) party to support the committee's
proposal to set up a parliamentary commission to investigate the
lawfulness of state bodies' activities in cases when the purpose of
land in Barbariga and Dragonera was changed following its sale and
when the "Brijuni-Rivijera" company was established without the
previous consent of municipal and city councils.
(hina) rml