ZAGREB, June 7 (Hina) - The headquarters for the defence of "Petrokemija" in Kutina, asks the Government and the Croatian Privatisation Fund (HFP) to respect the 1998 agreement on the privatisation of this factory for manufacturing
chemical products. The headquarters will, otherwise, be prepared to organise all legal but also not legal forms of the pressure so that the Agreement may be enforced, said a spokesman for the headquarters, Zeljko Klaus, at a news conference in Zagreb on Wednesday. Klaus told reporters that the headquarters insisted on a meeting between its representatives and a Deputy Prime Minister Slavko Linic and Economy Minister Goranko Fizulic within next seven days. If the Government refuses to discuss the implementation of the August 1998 agreement, the headquarters is going to launch a mass protest in the town of Kutina (50 kilometres east of Zagreb) and is r
ZAGREB, June 7 (Hina) - The headquarters for the defence of
"Petrokemija" in Kutina, asks the Government and the Croatian
Privatisation Fund (HFP) to respect the 1998 agreement on the
privatisation of this factory for manufacturing chemical
products.
The headquarters will, otherwise, be prepared to organise all legal
but also not legal forms of the pressure so that the Agreement may be
enforced, said a spokesman for the headquarters, Zeljko Klaus, at a
news conference in Zagreb on Wednesday.
Klaus told reporters that the headquarters insisted on a meeting
between its representatives and a Deputy Prime Minister Slavko
Linic and Economy Minister Goranko Fizulic within next seven days.
If the Government refuses to discuss the implementation of the
August 1998 agreement, the headquarters is going to launch a mass
protest in the town of Kutina (50 kilometres east of Zagreb) and is
ready to organise the blockade of the Zagreb-Lipovac motorway and
stage a protest in front of the Government's offices in the Croatian
capital, Klaus threatened.
In case the Government lays off a part of employees with
Petrokemija, the headquarters will initiate the civil
disobedience, he added.
The Privatisation Fund has assessed that the 1998 contract on the
manner for privatisation of this company was illegal and that the
deal had been made under the pressure of unions.
The agreement stipulates the rights of current and former workers
and retirees of Petrokemija in the purchase of the company's shares
at the price reached during the voucher privatisation, i.e. 114
kuna per share.
On May 19 this year, however, Privatisation Fund Chairman Hrvoje
Vojkovic ordered to the Petrokemija management to begin selling
shares at the nominal price of 1000 kuna.
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