LUCIN: POLICE TO WRAP UP INVESTIGATION INTO TRANSCRIPS PUBLISHED IN BELGRADE PRESS

ZAGREB, May 15 (Hina) - The Croatian Interior Ministry is wrapping up an investigation into transcripts on talks on the revision of the Dayton Agreement which the Serbian press alleges were held between Croatian President Stjepan Mesic and former Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic, Interior Minister Sime Lucin said in parliament on Wednesday, adding that persons who provided the press with the information had violated Croatia's national interests. #L# Lucin made the statement answering a question by Croatian Democratic Union's MP Ivic Pasalic, who inquired during question time at the start of the 22nd parliamentary session what the police intended to do to clarify claims that Mesic and Silajdzic had discussed changes to the Dayton Agreement, which the Serbian paper "Nedjeljni telegraf" published last week, quoting transcripts from the Croatian Service for the Protection of the Constitutional Order (SZUP). Lucin said the weekly was not quoting "any SZUP transcripts or a police report". He dismissed claims that the "documents" were provided by the Interior Ministry, saying he had not seen them and therefore could not say if they were authentic, but he believed that they were false. The police are completing an investigation into the transcripts. "Whoever provided the information to the press was working against Croatia's national interests and the police are looking for those persons," Lucin said. Dissatisfied with Lucin's answer, Pasalic said he was not interested in who had given the transcripts to the press, but in their content and what the police had done about it. He then requested an answer in writing to his inquiry. (hina) rml sb