COMMISSION FOR INSPECTION OF TUDJMAN'S TRANSCRIPTS HASN'T STARTED WORKING

ZAGREB, Nov 16 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said in an interview with Rijeka's Novi List daily of Friday every institution in Croatia made autonomous decisions about their own archives. "I don't know why the Government decided about the archive of the President of the Republic," Mesic said. To rectify that, a joint commission in charge of inspecting and filing documents found at the President's Office was established, but it was necessary to know the whereabouts of the documents, so that they do not get lost, Mesic said. Early this year the government made a decision on the take-over and use of documents belonging to late President Tudjman and its transfer from the President's Office to State Archive. At a closed-door session in mid-April, the government appointed a commission in charge of inspecting the transcripts found at the President's Office, which were to be transferred to the State Archive later. One of the leaders of the Democratic Centre (DC) party this week inquired publicly about the transfer of documents from late President Tudjman's Office to the State Archive. "The commission has not started working," the commission's chairman Petar Puliselic said today, adding, "there were some technical problems at the President's Office." He did not specify the problems. (hina) sb rml