ZAGREB, May 25 (Hina) - Croatia's President Stipe Mesic said on Thursday it had not been possible to return order to secret services earlier because a series of activities had to be done beforehand. "They have now been done and we can
now carry out what we promised in the electoral campaign, that we would reduce the number of intelligence services and the number of employees, in order to make them professional services and entirely depoliticised," he said. What has been done in the Croatian Intelligence Service (HIS) represents a logical step, he told reporters after opening the "Croatian Statehood" exhibition at Zagreb's National University Library on the occasion of Croatia's Statehood Day, May 30. Asked if the publishing in the media of the names of alleged perpetrators of a war crime in the central Bosnian village of Ahmici, who are said to be hiding in Croatia under false names, had step
ZAGREB, May 25 (Hina) - Croatia's President Stipe Mesic said on
Thursday it had not been possible to return order to secret services
earlier because a series of activities had to be done beforehand.
"They have now been done and we can now carry out what we promised in
the electoral campaign, that we would reduce the number of
intelligence services and the number of employees, in order to make
them professional services and entirely depoliticised," he said.
What has been done in the Croatian Intelligence Service (HIS)
represents a logical step, he told reporters after opening the
"Croatian Statehood" exhibition at Zagreb's National University
Library on the occasion of Croatia's Statehood Day, May 30.
Asked if the publishing in the media of the names of alleged
perpetrators of a war crime in the central Bosnian village of
Ahmici, who are said to be hiding in Croatia under false names, had
stepped up decision-making in connection with HIS, Mesic said the
decision had been made before.
The way the names were published showed only that the decision was
welcome, the President asserted.
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