INTERIOR MINISTRY & VETERANS' DELEGATIONS LAY WREATHS

( Editorial: --> 1682 ) ZAGREB, Aug 4 (Hina) - Delegations of the Croatian Interior Ministry and the First Croatian Policeman Association on Tuesday laid a wreath at Mirogoj Cemetery in Zagreb on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the establishment of the First Croatian Policemen Unit. The delegations were headed by Deputy Interior Minister Zlatko Gledec and association president Nenad Zovak. A wreath was also laid by the Altar of the Homeland on Medvedgrad on the occasion of August 5, Croatia's Homeland Gratitude Day, by a joint delegation of the Association of Croatian Homeland War Veterans (UHVDR) and the Association of Croat Republic Herceg- Bosna Homeland War Volunteers and Veterans (UDVDRHRHB). This delegation, headed by UHVDR secretary-general Valentino Rajkovic and UDVDRHRHB president Miro Grabovac-Titan, also laid wreaths at Mirogoj and at the grave of late Croatian Defence Minister Gojko Susak. Today, Gledec also received the representatives of the First Croatian Policeman Association. He recalled they were the first legally organised armed unit of Croatia. (hina) ha 041341 MET aug 98