"We are appalled"

Sunday, 5th February 2005

PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY                                                                   COUNIC OF EUROPE

ASSEMBLEE PARLEMENTAIRE                                                                 CONSEIL DE L’EUROPE

 

Doc. 10819

 

     The situation of the Serbs expelled from the Republic Serbian Krajina (UN Protected Area) and the Republic of Croatia in 1990-1995

 

Written Declaration No 374

 

This written declaration commits only the members who have signed it

 

1.            Reminding that, due to the pressure and terror against the Serbs, the ethnically motivated military offensives of 1995 in particular – entire territories were ethnically cleansed of the Serbs.

2.            Regretting that Croatia, ten years later, has not enabled the expelled Serbs to return and enjoy their human rights, resulting in small number returnees so far.

3.            Stressing that in 1990 Croatia was a state of the Croats and the Serbs as its equal constituent peoples and that the Croatian Parliament, violating its own Constitution, by a vote of Croatian ethnic deputies only, changed the status of the Serbs to national minority.

4.            Fully respecting the PACE Opinion No. 195 (1996) and the ECHR, the undersigned members strongly appeal to the Croatian Government to stick to its international responsibility and take all necessary measures to enable the Serbs to retrieve their status, full authority and individual and collective rights and freedoms and call the Assembly to urge Croatia to implement the CoE, EU and UN standards.

Signed: NIKOLIC, Tomislav, Serbia and Montenegro, NR BOJOVIC, Bozidar, Serbia and Montenegro, EPP/CD CHERNYSHENKO, Igor, Russian Federation, EDG EXNER, Vaclav, Czech Republic, UEL GLIGORIC, Tihomir, Bosnia and Herzegovina, SOC GOJKOVIC, Maja, Serbia and Montenegro, NR HOOPER, Gloria, United Kingdom, EDG JOVASEVIC, Ljubisa, Serbia and Montenegro, EPP/CD KOLESNIKOV, Victor, Russian Federation, EDG KOVALEV, Nikolay, Russian Federation, EDG MELNIKOV, Ivan, Russian Federation, UEL MILICEVIC, Ljiljana, Bosnia and Herzegovina, EPP/CD MILOJEVIC, Goran, Bosnia and Herzegovina, EPP/CD MOKRY, Vladimir, Russian Federation, EDG NAGHDALYAN, Hermine, Armenia, ALDE NAROCHNITSKAYA, Natalia, Russian Federation, UEL

OSKINA, Vera, Russian Federation, EDG OSTROVSKY, Alexey, Russian Federation, NR RUSTAMYAN, Armen, Armenia, SOC SLUTSKY, Leonid, Russian Federation, SOC Sobko, Sergey, Russian Federation, UEL/GUE TODOROVIC, Dragan, Serbia and Montenegro TOROSIYAN, Tigran, Armenia, EDG ZHIRINOVSKY, Vladimir, Russian Federation, NR ZIUGANOV, Guennady, Rusian Federation, UEL ZIZIC, Zoran, Serbia and Montenegro, SOC     Total: 28                               - SOC: socialist Group -              EPP/CD: Group of the European People’s Party -              ALDE: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe -              EDG: European Democratic Group -              UEL: Group of the Unified European Left -              NR: not registered in a group

 

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HTV REPORTERS APPALLED AT STATEMENTS BY FORMER EDITOR

ZAGREB, Feb 6 (Hina) - Croatian Television (HTV) reporters at the Croatian Journalists' Association (HND) said on Monday they were appalled at statements made by a former HTV editor in a newspaper interview, and called on the national broadcaster to take urgent action.#L#

Tomislav Marcinko, former editor of the HTV News Department and currently director of the HTV-owned Orfej music recording company, said in an interview with Vecernji List on Saturday that he was in possession of a document containing the names of HTV employees who had worked for the Yugoslav Counter-Intelligence Service (KOS) and State Security Service (SDB) up until 1990 and that he was prepared to make it public in order to stop accusations against him that he persecuted ethnic Serb journalists at HTV in 1991.

"We are appalled by lies, half-truths and insults from Tomislav Marcinko," the Executive Board of HTV Reporters at the HND said in a statement, adding that the interview had set off "an avalanche of comments and new interviews" challenging the credibility of the national broadcaster.

The HTV reporters said they were angered by renewed discrimination against their colleagues on ethnic grounds, and that they were confident that it was "a continuation of a well-planned and coordinated attack" on HTV.

The statement urged the HTV Board of Governors to take action against Marcinko and called on the HND to condemn the editorial policy of Vecernji List as unprofessional and unethical.

Later in the day, the HTV Board announced an investigation into the case and said that charges would be brought against Vecernji List for incorrect and offensive reporting on HTV and causing damage to its image.

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06.02.2006. 19:35 MET