CRO PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION VISITS UNITED STATES

WASHINGTON, June 14 (Hina) - The aim of our visit to the United States is to be introduced to the American experience in parliamentary surveillance of all security services -- police, army, intelligence service -- president of the Croatian National Sabor's Interior Policy Committee Djurdja Adlesic of the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) said Wednesday. As the head of a Croatian parliamentary delegation, Adlesic is in a one-week visit to Washington, D.C.. Croatian President's advisor for interior policy Igor Dekanic is also visiting the United States. The Croatian delegation already held talks with the Attorney General, the Secretary of Treasury, and officials of the State Department and the United States Congress. They are also scheduled to hold talks with officials in the Pentagon, the National Security Council, as well as state agencies and security services. During the visit, they will be informed of the role of non- governmental organisations in the United States security policy. The delegation said that talks held so far were open and added they noticed the interest of United States officials in the situation in Croatia. We had an opportunity to see that our new law on interior affairs is maybe even better that the American, because it is very precise in regulating who, when and how can decide on tapping or surveillance of persons during a police procedure, Adlesic stressed. The Croatian delegation is visiting the United States at the invitation of the United States government as a part of the international visits programme organised by the State Department. (hina) it jn