ZAGREB, Feb 26 (Hina) - The Croatian Parliament's House of Representatives
on Wednesday supported a proposal by the Education, Science and Culture
Committee for marking the 30th anniversary of the Declaration on the Name and
Status of the Standard Croatian Language.
The Declaration was published in the Zagreb culture weekly "Telegram"
on 17 March 1967 under the auspices of the Matica Hrvatska publishing and
cultural society and at the initiative of a group of Croatian writers.
Although it was aimed at the constitutional redefinition of the
Croatian language, it was also a sign of public protest against the forcible
unification of the Croatian and Serb languages to the detriment of the
former.
A vast majority of the Croatian people saw the Declaration as an
effort to preserve national consciousness, and it marked the beginning of
the awakening of Croatian national and democratic forces.
"The Declaration was the first act in socialist Yugoslavia when the
Croatian people said what it thought of Belgrade's unitarianist theses. It
homogenized the Croatian people like nothing before that," said Dubravko
Jelcic, a member of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and of the
Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Jelcic noted that there were many reasons why "that great event"
should be marked by declaring a memorial week, "Croatian Language Days",
from 11 to 17 March.
During question time, in response to a question by Milan Djukic of the
Serbian People's Party, Deputy Prime Minister Ljerka Mintas-Hodak said that
Croatia guaranteed all rights to all of its citizens, including those of
Serb nationality.
The Croatian government provided temporary accommodation for Serbs who
had decided to return to Croatia, Mintas-Hodak said, adding that she had
visited Donji Lapac, Djukic's home town 150 km south of Zagreb, where she
saw that the Serbs who had returned were accommodated in their homes and
that they had been given cattle.
"The government has responded to all your remarks on the situation on
the ground, most of which were unfounded," she told Djukic.
In the afternoon, the lower house concluded a discussion on draft
amendments to the law regulating the jurisdiction of courts and their seats.
Justice Minister Miroslav Separovic said that the amendments were aimed at
improving the situation in the judicial system.
The draft amendments envisage the establishment of five new commercial
courts - in Sisak, Pazin, Zadar, Sibenik and Dubrovnik - and five new
municipal courts - in Cabar, Ilok, Novalja, Prelog, Solin, Tisno and
Zapresic. They also provide for the widening of the jurisdiction of ten
municipal courts and the abolishment of military courts.
The amendments were backed by the working bodies of the House.
However, many deputies emphasized during the discussion that the amendments
should have been preceded by a thorough analysis of the situation in the
judiciary and the justice system.
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