CROATIAN PARLIAMENT TO BE IN SESSION UNTIL 12 DECEMBER ( Editorial: --> 1441 )

( Editorial: --> 1441 ) ZAGREB, Nov 17 (Hina) - Croatian Parliament Speaker Vlatko Pavletic held a news conference on Monday to announce that the Parliament would hold a session each week until 12 December. Presenting the agenda of the 23 session of the House of Representatives, due to begin on 19 November, Pavletic said that the lower house would discuss a report on the work of the commission for detainees and missing people on Wednesday, and on Thursday it would consider President Franjo Tudjman's proposals for amendments to the Constitution. Pavletic told reporters that the House of Representatives would begin discussing a 1998 draft budget the following week. He added that Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro would visit Croatia in mid-December. President Scalfaro is expected to address the Croatian Parliament on 17 December at an extraordinary session of both houses. (hina) jn mš 171412 MET nov 97