Z-4 PLAN UNJUST, UPPER HOUSE'S CONSITITUTION COMMISSION SAYS

ZAGREB, Feb 9 (Hina) - The Croatian Parliament's House of Counties' commission for constitution, rules of procedure and legislation, today discussed the Z-4 draft plan. At the beginning of the debate Ivan Aralica (ruling Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ), a deputy speaker of the House of Counties, and then members of the Social-Democratic Party (SDP), Croatian Independent Democrats (HND), Croatian Social and Liberal Party (HSLS), and the Dalmatian Action (DA), said that all elements of the plan that were not line with the Croatian Constitution, the Constitutional Law and international regulations on the minorities' rights, were not acceptable at all. The Commission's members expressed several critical remarks on the plan - such as that it was unjust plan, and it transformed the aggression in a civil war, or that the plan made it possible for war criminals to form a state, and this state could be then called with an unknown name in the Croatian geography, i.e. Krajina. They believed that the acceptance of such a plan would mean capitulation. They also warned that the displaced people were disappointed, whereas Milosevic did not give up his efforts to create on a Greater Serbia. Deputy speaker Aralica announced that in this regard a proposal would be made on the grounds of the Croatian Constitution, the Constitution Law, the regulations of the international protection of national minorities and UN Security Council decisions. (hina) jn mms 092011 MET feb 95