ZAGREB, Dec 17 (Hina) - The insistence of the government on a consensus on a national programme on association with the European Union is an attempt to dole out responsibility for its failure in foreign affairs, said the leader of the
Croatian Bloc (HB), Ivic Pasalic, commenting on some latest moves of the government.
ZAGREB, Dec 17 (Hina) - The insistence of the government on a
consensus on a national programme on association with the European
Union is an attempt to dole out responsibility for its failure in
foreign affairs, said the leader of the Croatian Bloc (HB), Ivic
Pasalic, commenting on some latest moves of the government. #L#
The government has proved to be unsuccessful and therefore it
cannot be given any support, Pasalic said on Tuesday.
The HB chief said the national programme was proposed with a delay
of two to three years and had many shortcomings such as a poor
economic strategy, demographic issues and the treatment of
indictments issued by the ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia).
Pasalic added that an inter-party agreement on Croatia's bids to
enter the EU, which was proposed by the ruling coalition, had a
series of unacceptable elements.
"The agreement asks of all parties to give carte blance to the
government, without getting a better insight into the whole thing,"
Pasalic said adding that "no support can be given to the government
which has been proved itself totally unsuccessful in the last three
years."
He therefore advocated the change in power.
He announced that opposition parties would try on Wednesday to
agree on a joint standpoint on three documents the government and
ruling coalition had proposed (regarding plans for the association
with the EU).
Pasalic described the protocol on Prevlaka (signed by foreign
ministers of Croatia and Yugoslavia) as "a great failure of
Croatia's foreign policy", and for him one of biggest mistakes was
the abandonment of defining a demarcation line. "Croatia has
indisputably lost a part of its territory, ceding it to the country
which launched aggression against it".
HB officials announced that this party would vote against a new
agreement with the International Monetary Fund, which a HB vice-
president, Rudolf Vouk, labelled as tough as the previous one,
although the government promised that the new one would be softer.
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