LANG ON CROATIA'S IMPLEMENTATION OF INT. HUMANITARIAN LAW

GENEVA, Nov 3 (Hina) - Slobodan Lang, the head of Croatia's delegation at an international conference of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent, on Wednesday informed the gathering in Geneva of the implementation and promotion of the international humanitarian law in Croatia. Lang, President Franjo Tudjman's advisor on humanitarian issues, told the Geneva conference that Croatia had never neglected its obligations and his country had always abode by promoting and implementing the international humanitarian law, regardless of problems and aggravating circumstances, which were primarily results of the aggression launched against Croatia. Lang added the Government in Zagreb is setting up a National Committee for the implementation of the international humanitarian law, the task of which will be to supervise, implement and promote the humanitarian law in line with the Geneva Conventions and additional protocols, read a statement issued by Croatia's permanent mission to the UN in Geneva. The Croatian Government's internal policy and human rights committee is taking active part in the work of the National Committee for education in human rights. The goal of this programme is to acquaint younger generations with successes in the field of human rights and in the implementation of the humanitarian law as well as to encourage them to accept values of democracy and human rights, Lang said in Geneva. He used this occasion to notify the Geneva conference of proposals from a project entitled "Challenges of the Good", which the Zagreb Government had presented in 1998 for the first time. He spoke of humanitarian aspects of the prevention of genocide and proposed that for this purpose a special committee be established which should be named after Margarite Frick-Cramer, one of few people who in 1942 spoke in public of the horrors of the Holocaust. (hina) ms