ZAGREB, Oct 15 (Hina) - The Croatian Parliament's House of
Representatives on Wednesday concluded a seven-hour discussion on a
government report on the human rights situation in Croatia in 1996.
The report received full support from a number of deputies of
the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party.
Recalling the Serb aggression against Croatia, Deptuy Speaker
Vladimir Seks said that at that time it had not been possible to
achieve the degree of human rights protection Croatia was striving
for.
Several deputies, including Bosiljko Misetic of the HDZ, spoke
of human rights protection as an instrument of international
pressure.
Summing up the discussion, Deputy Prime Minister Ljerka
Mintas-Hodak rejected objections that the report did not contain
information on government measures.
She noted that the report indicated only a small number of
steps undertaken last year because "it is impossible to cite
everything that the government has done."
Mintas-Hodak said that it would have been useful that non-
governmental organisations monitoring the human rights situation had
also submitted their reports. She added that only four of 33
organisations had responded to the government's call for
cooperation, noting that the Croatian Helsinki Committee had
rejected the invitation.
Commenting on remarks about the international community using
human rights as an instrument of pressure, Mintas-Hodak expressed an
expectation that the international community would assess the human
rights situation in Croatia "objectively and without double
standards."
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