JUSTICE MINISTER MEETS MILITARY PROSECUTORS, MILITARY COURTS' PRES

PRES $ IDENTS ZAGREB, 29 (Hina) - Croatia's Justice Minister Miroslav Separovic on Friday held a meeting with presidents of military courts and military prosecutors. The meeting focused on a Parliament decision, which is to go into effect soon and which annuls war regulations on the work of military courts. Separovic recalled that military courts and military prosecutors' offices had been established in line with regulations with legal force, which had been made by the President of the Republic of Croatia, in times Croatia's independence and unity were jeopardized and exposed to most severe attacks. Their purpose was to provide quicker and more effective protection of the highest values of the Croatian constitutional order, independence, unity, sovereignty and legal order, Separovic said. He stressed that military courts and military prosecutors' offices did their job honorably and conscientiously even in difficult conditions. He thanked all judges, prosecutors and officials in bodies of military judiciary. (hina) rm jn 292046 MET nov 96