ZAGREB, Feb 11 (Hina) - President Stjepan Mesic expressed satisfaction with the report and results of the State Prosecutor's Office in 2003, Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic said after talks with Mesic on Wednesday.
ZAGREB, Feb 11 (Hina) - President Stjepan Mesic expressed satisfaction
with the report and results of the State Prosecutor's Office in 2003,
Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic said after talks with Mesic on
Wednesday.#L#
In a brief statement after the talks in the President's Office, Bajic
said the meeting focused on the position and role of the State
Prosecutor's Office as an independent judicial body, its results in
2003 and problems at work which, says Bajic, should be solved with the
help of the executive and judicial authorities.
"Taking statistics into account, I stressed that the State
Prosecutor's Office had achieved extraordinary results but that there
is a lot more to be done in order to achieve even better results,"
Bajic said.
He said that in the coming period, the State Prosecutor's Office
planned to educate state prosecutors and their deputies so as to
prepare them for cases which the Hague war crimes tribunal
Prosecutor's Office would forward, as well as for combating "all and
especially new formes of crime".
Bajic said the talks also focused on crimes in the privatisation
process and problems the State Prosecutor's Office was facing while
processing those crimes. The president's advisor on home affairs, Igor
Dekanic, said that during the talks Mesic stressed he had no
constitutional powers over the State Prosecutor's Office, but that he
wanted to be informed about that institution in accordance with legal
provisions under which the President should take care of the integrity
and continuity of state authorities.
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