[Nettime-bold] (Fwd) Croatia angry over Italy honouring fascist rulers

["Ivo Skoric" <ivo@reporters.net>]

As if Croatia doesn't have enough of their own fascists, now since 
Berlusconi took over Italy, Croatia has to deal with renewed Italian 
fascism as well. Fortunately, there are no Nazis in sight yet to take 
over Germany.
ivo
Subject:        	Croatia angry over Italy honouring fascist rulers 

Croatia angry over Italy honouring fascist rulers

  
ZAGREB, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Croatia said on Friday it was angry over Italy's 
decision to award military honours to fascist administrators who ruled the 
Croatian coastal city of Zadar during World War Two. 

"It is an unfortunate move which has rightly angered Croatia...and we hope 
Italy will revise its course of action," Foreign Minister Tonino Picula told 
reporters. 

Picula said Zagreb would not take any immediate diplomatic measures because 
it wanted to give Italy a chance to rethink its decision. 

Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, who recently visited Croatia, decided 
last week to decorate the last Italian administration to rule Zadar up to the 
end of World War Two, according to media reports. 

The reports said Ciampi wanted to honour the Italians who lived in Zadar, 
many of whom perished in Allied bombing of the city. Some Italian survivors 
now live in Italy. 

"We must express big surprise at this act, which is contrary to everything 
(Zagreb and Rome) have agreed so far," Picula said. 

Zagreb immediately announced it would not sign a Partnership and Cooperation 
Agreement with Italy scheduled for October 29, the same day Croatia signs an 
association agreement with the European Union. 

The medal awarding ceremony, slated to take place on November 13, appeared to 
have been postponed in the face of Croatian protests, Croatian media reports 
said. 

Zadar, along with Croatia's other coastal regions including the northern 
Istrian peninsula, fell under Italian rule in 1918 as Rome's part of the 
spoils after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire in World War One. 

The territory reverted to communist Yugoslavia in 1945 and most Italians in 
the region fled to Italy. 

The issue of the return of their property, confiscated by the communists, has 
yet to be fully resolved by Croatia, which seceded from the Yugoslav 
federation in 1991. 

08:24 10-26-01

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