DRAFT CONCLUSIONS FROM PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE CLOSED SESSION

ZAGREB, Dec 1 (Hina) - Croatian Parliament's House of Representatives session adjourned this afternoon, and it is to resume next Tuesday. The deputy speaker, Vladimir Seks, who chaired today's session, decided to put an end to today's part of the 21st session, explaining that the normal work could not continue due to violations of the rules of procedure. When the draft conclusions, proposed by the Home Affairs and National Security Committee, was put to the vote, Drazen Budisa, a Croatian Social and Liberal Party (HSLS) deputy, and other parliamentary members protested strongly because they had not been allowed to speak up. Afterwards the deputy speaker Seks decided that the session should adjourn, and there was no casting of vote on the draft conclusions. At the beginning of this afternoon's 21st session the Home Affairs and National Security Committee head, Luka Bebic, read the draft conclusions, adopted at today's closed session of the Committee by majority votes in favour and two against. The draft conclusions stress that after the seventh extension of UN Protection Force mandate in occupied Croatian areas no slightest progress has been made in the implementation of UN Security Council relevant resolutions. UNPROFOR has not disarmed Serb paramilitaries in occupied Croatian areas, in line with the Vance Plan and the UN SC resolutions, but it has let Serb terrorists undisturbedly attack territory of neighbouring Bosnia-Herzegovina. Making it possible for Serb paramilitaries to cross the internationally recognized Croatian border and to flagrantly attack the territory of the other sovereign State, especially the towns of Bihac and Velika Kladusa, is the proof of absurdity of further presence UNPROFOR in occupied Croatian areas. Therefore the Committee says in its conclusions that there will be no reasons for UNPROFOR staying any longer in Croatia in those conditions. The Committee requests the Croatian Government to accelerate the forming of all necessary political, diplomatic, police and military prerequisites so that on the ground of UN Charter Chapter 45, the Republic of Croatia can establish the Croatian constitutional and legal system on its occupied areas as soon as possible. It also requests that Government should break off all contacts and talks with the so-called Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia/Montenegro) officials until the FRY recognizes the Republic of Croatia within its UN-enshrined borders. In the conclusions the Committee expresses full support to the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina in endeavor aimed at speedy and complete implementation of the Washington Accords. The Committee says it has been informed of the contents of the tentative economic agreement between Croatian Government and Croatia's rebel Serbs, and proposes that no discussion on this matter should be held at the House of Representatives. After Luka Bebic read the above conclusions, Drazen Budisa informed the Parliament that the opposition parties' clubs had held a joint session during the 21st session's break. Budisa added that the opposition parties requested that the text of the tentative economic agreement, which was to be signed by Croatian Government and Croatia's rebel Serbs, should be submitted to their deputies in the Parliament. He explained the deputies did not ask for the discussion on this agreement, but they held that they should be given the insight in its contents. At a press conference by the Croatian opposition parties in the break of the House of Representatives' session, Drazen Budisa expressed regret at the fact that the parliamentary members could read the tentative economic agreement merely in copies of the Belgrade media's articles. The main objection to this document refers to the fact that it does not include a political preamble which guarantees the territorial integrity of Croatia, whereas it seems that the Croatian Government has accepted the amendments proposed by the rebel Serbs, according to Budisa. (hina) mar ks mms 012004 MET dec 94