ZAGREB, Dec 1 (Hina) - President Stipe Mesic believes a consensus has to be reached on the organisation of a new national security system and that working material on the matter should not be made public before experts, and then
politicians, have stated their position. Mesic was asked by the press on Friday to comment on yesterday's round table on the national security system in which representatives from his office failed to participate. "One goes into debate when the material is mature for debate. I don't think the Croatian public should be bothered with raw material, because we have too many problems to bother about intelligence services. They never saved even one regime, so today's (services) can't save anybody either but have to be in the function of the state. It doesn't have to be turned into a show," he said. A national security bill drafted by the Defence Ministry wa
ZAGREB, Dec 1 (Hina) - President Stipe Mesic believes a consensus
has to be reached on the organisation of a new national security
system and that working material on the matter should not be made
public before experts, and then politicians, have stated their
position.
Mesic was asked by the press on Friday to comment on yesterday's
round table on the national security system in which
representatives from his office failed to participate.
"One goes into debate when the material is mature for debate. I
don't think the Croatian public should be bothered with raw
material, because we have too many problems to bother about
intelligence services. They never saved even one regime, so today's
(services) can't save anybody either but have to be in the function
of the state. It doesn't have to be turned into a show," he said.
A national security bill drafted by the Defence Ministry was
presented at yesterday's round table. The draft made by the Office
for National Security was not presented as the presenter failed to
appear.
(hina) ha