ZAGREB, Sept 22 (Hina)- Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan on Monday said he had not heard that there had been talks that his wife, Dijana Plestina, was supposed to become an ambassadors to the UNICEF and that the organisation had in
fact rejected such a proposal.
ZAGREB, Sept 22 (Hina)- Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan on
Monday said he had not heard that there had been talks that his wife,
Dijana Plestina, was supposed to become an ambassadors to the
UNICEF and that the organisation had in fact rejected such a
proposal. #L#
"This is the first I have heard that such an idea even existed or
that it could have been rejected because the idea did not exist at
all," Racan told a press conference in response to questions by
reporters.
Racan assigned the rumour to dirty pre-election campaigning.
Everything is possible in this type of campaigning even such
fabrications, he said.
The PM said that he thought Plestina was doing a good job and that
she had in fact just returned from Thailand where she had
represented Croatia at the Ottawa Conference on Mine Clearance.
Anything else is mere speculation, Racan said, adding that he would
like for the wives of other politicians to be involved in
humanitarian actions.
Monday's issue of "Slobodna Dalmacija" daily ran an article
entitled "UNICEF Rejects to Appoint Dijana Plestina as its
Ambassador". The article notes that the Croatian Mission to the UN
in New York lobbied about six months ago for Racan's wife to become
an ambassador to the UNICEF. Nevertheless, a rejection arrived at
the start of the summer, the daily says.
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