GOVERNMENT TO INFORM PARLIAMENT ON RELATIONS WITH ICTY

( Editorial: --> 5229 ) ZAGREB, May 20 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic said during question time at the Croatian Parliament House of Representatives on Wednesday that during his visit to Israel, not one criticism had been said about Croatia during all of the official meetings he had attended. Granic said he had received a closed letter to which the Croatian government would respond. MP of the Croatian Pure Party of rights (HCSP), Ivan Gabelica, said Granic should not have accepted the letter handed to him by Moshe Sanbar during his visit to the Yad Vashem Centre. According to Gabelica, Mr. Sanbar, who is opposed to the erection of a joint monument to the victims of the partisan movement and movement which fought for the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), claiming that a joint monument could not exist for victims and their killers, is calling the whole NDH (1941-1945) army as killers. A killer can only be one man, not the whole army, Gabelica said. He further stated that the letter demanded that all anti-Semitic sections in Franjo Tudjman's book be removed. "Dr. Tudjman is a historian and his scientific works cannot get involved in relations between two countries. If there are unacceptable views, the issue cannot be solved politically, but only through expert criticism of the book," Gabelica said. As requested by MPs, Prime Minister Zlatko Matesa expressed readiness on behalf of the government to submit to the Parliament a report on relations with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Matesa said that a deputy prime-minister had already informed the head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Croatia that the Croatian government held that the OSCE in Croatia was involved with issues it should not be involved with. The government deems unacceptable certain OSCE views, for example, about the justice system and school textbooks on history, and the OSCE leadership will be informed of this, Matesa said. He pledged to the MP of the Istrian Democratic Union (IDS), Kajin, that the government would examine all aspects of the problem pertaining to the (Istrian Y) road being constructed in Istria by the Bina-Istra company. Kajin said that the road toll announced by the contractor was impudently high and had no foundation, because nowhere in the world do people pay tolls for a common two-track road. (hina) lm 201312 MET may 98