Asked whether the current President Stjepan Mesic declassified the document, the secretary of Mesic's public relations office, Danijela Barisic, said that everything in connection with the transcript was in the jurisdiction of the government.
The former coalition government led by Prime Minister Ivica Racan made a decision in January 2001 that transcripts and documents from the time of the late President Franjo Tudjman should be taken over by the State Archives and that in compliance with the law on the archive material, those documents could not be used over 30 years after their issuance, except when access should be granted to particular documents with the previous approval of the government.
Although the government made the said decision, the archives of the late president have never been transferred to the State Archives, and this was confirmed by the Archives' Deputy Director Jozo Jovanovic on Wednesday.
"Nothing from the Tudjman documentation has arrived in the State Archives, and I have not heard that the government's decision has been revoked," he told Hina.
Asked by Hina why the Tudjman archives had not yet been transferred to the State Archives from the Office of the President, Mesic's spokeswoman Barisic said the question should be referred to the government which had decided to relocate the archives and to the government's commission.
The government's commission was set up in April 2001 with the aim of examining the documentation.
Mesic has recently said that the documents were found in the Office of the President and that he is going to declassify them. Yesterday he added that he had given consent to the declassification but that the further procedure was the matter of the government.
He also refuted allegations that he had sent the UN war crimes tribunal transcripts from meetings which former president Franjo Tudjman held with Croatian army generals on the northern Adriatic archipelago of Brijuni before the 1995 operation "Storm", as recently reported by the media.
The justice ministry said on Wednesday that it would present its position on the matter later in the day.