ZAGREB, Mar 11 (Hina) - The deputy head of the Office for National Security (UNS) and head of the Croatian Intelligence Service (HIS), Ozren Zunec, on Saturday responded to a statement by the head of the Croatian Democratic Union
(HDZ) bench, Vladimir Seks, given at Friday's session of parliamentary committees on internal affairs and national security. Since all who attended the session were obliged to protect the confidentiality of the data presented, Seks' making public my assessment that the found archive (on the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina) contained "nothing spectacular" is unfair. I gave the assessment so that no miracles or sensations are expected from the announcement of the documents, Zunec said. He dismissed Seks' claim that the documents he referred to at the session "were not discovered yesterday and that it is not correct that they had been hidden with the aim of protecting the real c
ZAGREB, Mar 11 (Hina) - The deputy head of the Office for National
Security (UNS) and head of the Croatian Intelligence Service (HIS),
Ozren Zunec, on Saturday responded to a statement by the head of the
Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) bench, Vladimir Seks, given at
Friday's session of parliamentary committees on internal affairs
and national security.
Since all who attended the session were obliged to protect the
confidentiality of the data presented, Seks' making public my
assessment that the found archive (on the war in Bosnia-
Herzegovina) contained "nothing spectacular" is unfair. I gave the
assessment so that no miracles or sensations are expected from the
announcement of the documents, Zunec said.
He dismissed Seks' claim that the documents he referred to at the
session "were not discovered yesterday and that it is not correct
that they had been hidden with the aim of protecting the real
culprits and sacrificing general Blaskic."
Zunec recalled that Parliament President Zlatko Tomcic, who
chaired the session, warned all participants that they were obliged
to protect the confidentiality of the data they were about to hear,
and Zunec himself, during his presentation, warned about the need
to protect the confidentiality of the information.
"During my presentation about the importance of the documents from
the archive in question, I specified the segments in which those
documents, according to my estimation, can change the picture and
judgements about the role of some institutions and individuals in
some stages of the war, and I gave the assessment that they do not
contain 'anything spectacular' so that miracles and sensations are
not expected from making those documents known. To support my
claim, I said that one should not expect to find in the archive 'a
registered order on the division of Bosnia-Herzegovina' but rather
that the documentation should be carefully and professionally
examined with the aim of discovering a more objective picture of
events and people mentioned in the archive."
Zunec also dismissed Seks' claim that documents addressed at the
session 'were not discovered yesterday and that it is not true that
they had been hidden'. As regards the archive in question, Zunec
said, it is true that the documents it contains had been gathered
through operative work many years ago, approximately at the time
general Blaskic surrendered to The Hague tribunal, and since then
they were kept in a completely unordered state and were impossible
to use. The ordering of the archive started only couple of months
before the completion of the hearing in the trial of general
Blaskic, and the defence was not able to use them. An investigation
will show whether this delay in ordering the archive was
intentional or if this was a case of negligence, Zunec said.
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