Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic on Sunday sent a letter of condolence to the family of the deceased parliament speaker Boris Sprem after Sprem passed away at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston where he had been treated for multiple myeloma.
Sprem, 57, is survived by his wife and son.
In his letter which he forwarded on his own behalf and on the behalf of the government, Milanovic said that he was "deeply grieved and saddened by the news of Boris's death"
"Boris's passing leaves us without a dear friend and colleague," Milanovic wrote, among other things, in the message in which he praised Sprem for having promoted parliamentarism and discussion.
Milanovic recalls that Sprem, a long-standing Social Democratic parliamentarian, had a rich political career and that he performed every duty honorably and open-heartedly with the sincere desire to work for the common weal.
