ZAGREB, Sept 16 (Hina) - Croatian War Veterans' Affairs Minister Ivica Pancic said on Tuesday he was willing to bear all the political consequences if a list of flats and housing loans allocated to veterans was not published soon and
if it did not include all other categories of citizens who are budgetary beneficiaries.
ZAGREB, Sept 16 (Hina) - Croatian War Veterans' Affairs Minister
Ivica Pancic said on Tuesday he was willing to bear all the
political consequences if a list of flats and housing loans
allocated to veterans was not published soon and if it did not
include all other categories of citizens who are budgetary
beneficiaries. #L#
Pancic told reporters the government and his ministry did not scrap
the idea of publishing the list, and that this was a matter of weeks,
not months.
The aim of the list is for the public, notably war veterans, to find
out who was allocated a flat or a loan and whether they deserved it.
It is expected that those who got flats unlawfully will then bear
the consequences, he said, adding that those who made it possible
for them were more to blame.
The list will not be in the function of coming parliamentary
elections, Pancic stressed.
The government's inner cabinet decided yesterday the list of war
veterans who were given flats or housing loans on the basis of their
disability cannot be issued until new legal provisions enabling it
are adopted.
Legal experts advising the government have estimated that
publication of the list could result in a large number of lawsuits
due to current provisions on data confidentiality.
Pancic applauded the inner cabinet's decision that the list should
include all categories of citizens who are budgetary
beneficiaries.
The minister today brought a list with the names of 8,304 veterans
and war victims' families who were allocated flats or housing loans
through the veterans affairs ministry, but journalists were
allowed to see only the number, not the actual names.
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