In response to a question by a Social Democratic deputy about how costs for the construction of the Gazenice-Zadar highway section soared from planned 250 million kuna to 450 million kuna, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said that his cabinet would thoroughly check such allegations and all reports about alleged corruption.
"The Government is firmly resolved to ensure that public procurement sector be fully transparent and free of embezzlements, such were during the previous government," Sanader said responding to the question of the deputy of the strongest opposition party.
Deputy Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor, who is also the minister for war veterans' affairs, dismissed claims by the Bosniak ethnic minority's representative about the discrimination against Bosniaks, who used to be members of the Croat Defence Council (HVO) in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
PM Semso Tankovic said that the agreement on rights of HVO members was discriminatory against former HVO members of the Bosniak origins.
"The agreement is not discriminatory. If it were so, Bosnia-Herzegovina would not have ratified it," Kosor countered.
Tankovic said that he had received many complaints from Bosnia-Herzegovina about Bosniaks, former HVO members, who could not exercise their rights stemming from the agreement.
Kosor asked him to forward every such complaint to her.
Asked by Silvano Hrelja of the Croatian Pensioners' Party (HSU) how the Government was going to solve the discrimination against former tenancy holders living in nationalised flats, Prime Minister Sanader said it would be the best way for the protected leasees to reach agreement with flat owners.
He said he hoped the government would settle the matter, and also warned that these were two categories of citizens on diametrally opposite positions and there was no solution to satisfy both sides.