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Zagreb - Parliament on Friday adopted a law proclaiming the eastern town of Vukovar a place of special homeland respect and a law whereby the Health Ministry assumes charge of the Vukovar General County Hospital.
The law proclaiming Vukovar a place of special respect was adopted by the majority vote. Its aim is to nurture the memory of what the town went through in the Homeland War as well as encourage its development.
Vukovar had a special role in the establishment of the independent and sovereign democratic Croatia and represents a symbol of resistance, sacrifice, victory, and unity in the 1991-95 war.
The law envisages the establishment of a council for homeland respect, peace, and development.
Under the second law, the founders' rights of the Vukovar General County Hospital are transferred from the county to the state, the hospital becomes the National Memorial Hospital and the Health Ministry is in charge of running and funding it.
Also today, Parliament appointed a commission to deal with citizens' complaints on police work, whose formation was envisaged by the 2015 Police Act.
All nine members of the commission were appointed to a four-year term. They will consider complaints and, if they find them justified, inform the parliamentary Human and minority rights committee and the Interior Ministry.