ZAGREB, Sept 19 (Hina) - Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan said during Wednesday's question time at the Parliament that there will be no dismissals of state officials "of sensationalistic proportions" as speculated by the public.
The government is critical about the situation in the state administration and is thinking about what to do to make the administration function more efficiently, but there will be no dismissals of sensationalistic proportions spoken about, Racan said in reply to a question by an MP of the opposition's Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), Jadranka Kosor, who asked whether it was true that about 50,000 state officials would get dismissed. Asked by Tonci Tadic of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) when the government would issue the document on the sale of 16 percent of Croatian Telekom (HT) stock to Deutsche Telecom, Racan said there is still no contract, but that it should be signed next month. The prin
ZAGREB, Sept 19 (Hina) - Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan said
during Wednesday's question time at the Parliament that there will
be no dismissals of state officials "of sensationalistic
proportions" as speculated by the public.
The government is critical about the situation in the state
administration and is thinking about what to do to make the
administration function more efficiently, but there will be no
dismissals of sensationalistic proportions spoken about, Racan
said in reply to a question by an MP of the opposition's Croatian
Democratic Union (HDZ), Jadranka Kosor, who asked whether it was
true that about 50,000 state officials would get dismissed.
Asked by Tonci Tadic of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) when the
government would issue the document on the sale of 16 percent of
Croatian Telekom (HT) stock to Deutsche Telecom, Racan said there
is still no contract, but that it should be signed next month.
The principles of the sale have been agreed on, but the process is
not over yet, Racan said, adding that after the process ends, the
contract will be made available to the Parliament and the public.
Asked by HDZ's Davorka Suica what the government is doing to solve
the issue of Croatia's southernmost peninsula of Prevlaka and the
return of land on Prevlaka to Croatian citizens, Racan said they
were working on having the UN mandate on the peninsula end as soon as
possible, and then solve property relations issues.
Vladimir Seks (HDZ) asked whether the recent apprehension of
several people in Virovitica (north Croatia) for police interviews
about alleged war crimes was in line with laws on police and
criminal procedure. He claimed he had information that some
citizens, some of them Croatian army commanders, had been arrested
without a prior summons for a police interview.
Interior Minister Sime Lucin said he believed the arrests were
carried out in a legal fashion, but said he could not confirm this
with certainty.
Because of the recent happenings in Bibinje, where a fight arose
between a group of young men and the police, and because there had
been threats of blocking the border crossing near Virovitica, the
police must carry out additional security measures to protect
citizens and border traffic, Lucin said.
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