Croatia
BUTROS GHALI IS BLACKMAILING US. STATEMENT BY ZDRAVKO TOMAC, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE CROATIAN GOVERNMENT AND MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL COUNCIL OF THE RADICAL PARTY
Vienna, 22 February 1992. In an interview with the Austrian newspaper "Kleine Zeitung", Zdravko Tomac accused Butros Ghali of adopting "a policy of blackmail", stating that Ghali wants to keep the local police force, composed of Serbs, in the occuppied territories, and legalize the government of the oppressors. On East River they want to put an end to the war as soon as possible, and they are therefore making various concessions to the Serbs of "Krajina". The Croatian Government does not agree with this policy of concessions, which could put its very stability at risk.
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Croatia
CROATIA HAS NO EXCUSE FOR LACK OF DEMOCRACY. INTERVIEW WITH DRAZEN BUDISA, PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIAL-LIBERAL PARTY AND MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL COUNCIL OF THE RADICAL PARTY
Zagreb, 23 February 1992. In an interview with the Zagreb daily newspaper, the President of the Social-Liberal Party Drazen Budisa, who recently resigned his ministerial post in the Croatian Government, stated that: "The value of the Government lay in the solidarity between members from different parties and in the common basis of their opinions. This was true during the war, but recently differences of opinion have come to the fore, especially since the President announced the coming elections." (...) "The Ghali plan does not favour the return of refugees. It is difficult to believe that refugees will return to territories governed by those who expelled them." (...) "If President Tudjman really had to sign everything he signed, he should also have consulted the Government." (...) "Croatia has not respected the development of democracy, and this has led to the current weakness of the country." (...) "In my opinion some parties have started out the election campaign with an unfair advantage." (...) "I am afra
id that during the elections the parties will divide up into two poles, "moderates" and "extremists", and that the "extremists" will come out on top."
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Ex-Yugoslavia
KOSOVO, BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA, INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR CROATIA AND SLOVENIA...LORD CARRINGTON'S SHAMELESS CONDUCT
London/Zagreb, 27 February 1992. According to the British daily "The Guardian", reported by the Zagreb Vecernji List, Lord Carrington considers the Croatian request that the u2e. Albanians in Kosovo be given the same rights that Croatia will give to the Serbian minority to be "unrealistic". Despite this, he considers Kosovo to be one of the three main problems for the solution of the Yugoslavian crisis. The other two problems are the state of Krajina and a constitution for Bosnia-Hercegovina capable of satisfying all three peoples.
Lord Carrington stated that it will take another six months to reach a political agreement between the Republics of the ex-Yugoslavia.
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Croatia
MILOSEVIC WILL FALL AFTER THE REFERENDUM (IN BOSNIA). STATEMENT BY MESIC, PRESIDENT OF THE HDZ AND MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL COUNCIL OF THE RADICAL PARTY
Zagreb, 28 February 1992. At a press conference Mesic stated: "By violating the truce in the last few days, Serbia hopes to provoke a Croatian reaction. It will then accuse Croatia of the violation in order to prevent the arrival of the peace-keeping forces, which will bring no benefit to Milosevic. With the arrival of peace-keeping forces, in fact, the Serbs will have to leave Croatia, and in addition to this the referendum in Bosnia-Hercegovina will dispel any illusion about the third Yugoslavia."
Asked why Croatia has not recognized Bosnia-Hercegovina, Mesic replied that Croatia has received no request to do so.
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Eire
ABORTION AND FREE CIRCULATION
Brussels, 25 February 1992. Shocked by the cruel and inhuman decision by the Irish courts to prevent a 14-year-old rape victim from travelling to England for an abortion, Marco Taradash and Claudia Roth, members of the Green Group in the European Parliament, brought the case up before the Committee for Internal Affairs, on which they both sit.
According to Taradash and Roth, "it is unacceptable for a European Court to prevent a European citizen who has not committed any crime from travelling within the Community.
The clause in the Treaty of Rome on the free circulation of citizens has been violated. The protocol added to the Maastricht Treaty by request of the Irish government, which states that "no article of the Treaty on European Union can affect the application in Ireland of article 40 of the Constitution (the article which forbids abortion - editor's note), as well as being questionable, does not constitute sufficient grounds for the decision of the court.
We hope that the Supreme Court will annul the decision and that this case will be the beginning of a rapid path towards the legalization of abortion in Ireland, the only country in the European Community in which the moralistic attitude of u2e. politicians still allows the scourge of clandestine abortion."
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Italy
ELECTORAL LISTS PRESENTED
Rome, 2 March 1992. The many lists which will take part in the forthcoming elections, to be held on 5 April, have been presented at the 32 authorized offices around the country. They include many Radical candidates, especially in the Socialist lists, the Marco Pannella List, the Referendum List, and the Green Party list. A complete list of these candidates will be given in the next issue of Radical Newsletter.
