TOMCIC: HSS WILL SUPPORT GOVERNMENT

ZAGREB, July 14 (Hina) - President of the Croatian Peasants' Party (HSS) Zlatko Tomcic on Saturday said HSS MPs would support Prime Minister Ivica Racan's government at tomorrow's session on vote on confidence in the government. The HSS members will support the government, Tomcic said after today's session of the expanded HSS Presidency. The HSS approves the moves the government took so far in cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), said Tomcic. The HSS demands of the government to, in possible trials against Croatian citizens, continue to persistently defend fundamental standpoints from parliament and government documents, particularly individual guilt for war crimes, the party president said. The HSS Presidency assessed political qualifications and revisions of historical events which could mean the criminalisation of the Homeland War and which are possibly included in the indictments as unacceptable. Tomcic told reporters the HSS members would vote for a joint discussion on cooperation with the Hague and confidence in the government. The two issues are closely linked, Tomcic assessed. He said members of the government, headed by Prime Minister Racan were expected at Sunday's session. Asked what would be done if Sunday's session would not end by midnight, constitutional deadline for regular session, Tomcic said there was a solution for everything. Later he explained he called an extraordinary session for Monday and Tuesday, thus the parliament would be able to continue its work after midnight. (hina) it sb