ZAGREB, May 24 (Hina) - Besides the narrow government cabinet, nobody in the country has any idea about what the government is signing in the new arrangement with the International Monetary Fund, MPs of the Croatian Party of Rights
(HSP) said on Friday and requested that the parliament discuss a report on talks with the IMF.
ZAGREB, May 24 (Hina) - Besides the narrow government cabinet,
nobody in the country has any idea about what the government is
signing in the new arrangement with the International Monetary
Fund, MPs of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) said on Friday and
requested that the parliament discuss a report on talks with the
IMF. #L#
At a news conference in the parliament, members of the HSP, Tonci
Tadic and Miroslav Rozic, recalled a parliament conclusion by
obliging the government to inform the parliament before signing any
new arrangement with the Fund.
Tadic and Rozic said the government was refusing to inform the
parliament about it, and recalled the past agreement dating January
2001, which stipulated everything currently happening in Croatia:
the obligation for the INA oil company and HEP electric supply
company to be privatised, police officers dismissed, the number of
soldiers reduced, and so on.
In October 2001 the government was granted a loan for structural
adjustment from the World Bank, and it knew that it would have to
amend the Labour Act and reduce workers' rights, and thus worked
behind unions' backs, Rozic and Tadic asserted.
The MPs protested against a Croatian Air Force and NATO military
exercise held above Istria ten days ago.
Tadic said Croatia could influenced the decision for the exercise
not to take place ahead of the tourist season, via its
representative in a NATO coordinating body. After the war, Croatia
should shed the image of a war zone, he said.
(hina) lml