ZAGREB, Dec 3 (Hina) - Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) leader Anto Djapic sent another letter to German Ambassador Gebhardt Weiss on Wednesday, pointing out the HSP had revised some of its positions and become a "development-oriented
and European party", and criticising Weiss for failing to "objectively inform (the German government) about the political situation in Croatia" and the HSP.
ZAGREB, Dec 3 (Hina) - Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) leader Anto
Djapic sent another letter to German Ambassador Gebhardt Weiss on
Wednesday, pointing out the HSP had revised some of its positions
and become a "development-oriented and European party", and
criticising Weiss for failing to "objectively inform (the German
government) about the political situation in Croatia" and the HSP.
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Djapic thanked Weiss on the "terse letter" in which the ambassador
spoke about an HSP document called "Vision of a New Croatia", which
the party adopted at its second convention in 1996. "That document
reflected the political situation of a time when the Republic of
Croatia still wasn't integral because part of its territory was
under occupation," wrote Djapic.
He went on to say that the HSP web site contained more recent
documents which were "of outstanding importance for the evolution"
of the HSP from "a 'wartime' into a development-oriented and
European party".
Those documents include the programme declaration "The Croatian
Right-Wing for the 21st Century", adopted at the party's fourth
convention in February 2001 at which the HSP "took a clear position
on the Ustasha rule at the time of the NDH (1941-5 Independent State
of Croatia) and on its order, and revised certain positions from the
document 'Vision of a New Croatia'," Djapic wrote.
He added that Weiss had failed to "objectively inform (his
government) about the political situation in... Croatia, notably
in our Party," as well as that "much more important that our words
and documents were and remain our deeds, i.e. concrete performance
in... parliament and the public over the last four years".
Part of Croatia's print media have claimed that Weiss said in a
recent letter to Djapic that the HSP's entry into Croatia's new
coalition government would be detrimental to Croatia.
According to the press, Weiss' letter was a reply to a letter Djapic
sent to ambassadors accredited to Zagreb on Monday, after Italian
Ambassador Alessandro Grafini said that the HSP's entry into the
government would be bad for the country. The Italian said that after
a meeting of European ambassadors last Thursday at which they
assessed that the HSP's platform was unacceptable for the EU.
The press said that in his reply, Weiss told Djapic he did not know
which platform to believe -- the "HSP coalition platform" which
Djapic had recently sent to the embassies, or the previous one
called "Vision of a New Croatia", which was displayed on the HSP web
site until Monday.
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