PRESIDENT TUDJMAN'S TRANSCRIPTS STILL NOT IN STATE ARCHIVES

ZAGREB, Jan 22 (Hina) - A vice premier, Goran Granic, on Wednesday confirmed that transcripts of conversations held by the late Croatian president, Franjo Tudjman, had not yet been stored into the national archives due to technical problems, although they should have been placed there pursuant to a law. #L# A member of parliament, Ante Beljo, who is a representative of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), asked about the whereabouts of that documentation and accused the incumbent government of trying to turn Croatia into the first country to be without a state secret. He also asserted that the government "has surrendered the Croatian sovereignty to the ICTY (UN war crimes tribunal)" by forwarding the documentation in question to the ICTY prosecution. Granic responded to Beljo that the government was authorised to declassify documents, particularly for justified reason such as the ICTY prosecution's request for some documents because of investigations. "It is not legally disputable that the government should make such documents available to the ICTY prosecution for investigations," Granic told the Sabor. The government official said that a part of the documentation had been taken over by Vladimir Seks who at the time had been the acting president of the HDZ, and Tudjman's son Miroslav, while a part remained in the President's Office. At the beginning of its session on Wednesday, the parliament introduced a novelty in its work. Upon the completion of today's question time, it was read out what the government failed to do with regard to its obligation to MPs in the past period. The government was again called to respond to questions by MPs Ivo Loncar, independent deputy, Marijana Petir of the Peasant Party (HSS) and Ljubo Cesic Rojs (HDZ) in the coming seven days.