When Will National Security Committee Convene?

Although MPs on April 27 requested a session of the committee on the declassification of the Brijuni transcripts, it has not been held yet.

Pero Kovacevic of the Coratian party of Rights (HSP), Ante Markov of the Croatian Peasants’ Party (HSS) and Srecko Ferencak of the Croatian People’s Party (HNS) a month ago requested an urgent session of the National Security Committee to discuss whether the classification of secrecy had been taken off the transcripts from the session in Brijuni in 1995.

-The session was not held even a month after – said Kovacevic, again urging committee members to convene and discuss the declassification of the Brijuni transcripts.

Kovacevic said that this was not fair to those sitting in The Hague that it was not known which government had declassified the documents.

-It should be determined whether it was done for the requirements of the Hague tribunal or for the public – Kovacevic concluded.

Ante Markov agreed with him, adding that such conduct of the committee was impermissible.

-Committee chairman Ivan Jarnjak said then that the details about the transcripts would be known in a week and a month has gone by – Markov stressed.

Jarnjak claims the committee session will be held next week 

After criticism by the two MPs, the chairman of the Committee for Internal Affairs and National Security, Ivan Jarnjak, commented on the issue.

-Today we received materials from the Security and Intelligence Service and the members of parliament had to have known this, so they rushed to call a news conference – said Jarnjak, adding that this was most probably an electoral game.

After the HSP criticised the government for not taking off the classified mark off the Brijuni transcripts, Jarnjak asked that the Office for National Security comment on the issue.

Asked when the committee would convene, Jarnjak said next week.