MP CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION INTO WORK OF INTELLIGENCE SERVICES

ZAGREB, Jan 21 (Hina) - A Croatian opposition MP on Thursday called for the Croatian President's intervention and the Croatian Interior Minister's resignation after reading in a weekly that the Service for the Protection of the Constitutional Order (SZUP) tapped his telephone conversations. In an open letter forwarded to the Croatian President, the Interior Minister, and the president of parliament's Committee for Internal Affairs and State Security, MP Bozo Kovacevic called for the establishment of a commission which would investigate the work of intelligence services. Kovacevic demands that Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, as head of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), advocate the immediate establishment of the said commission of inquiry, which is also one of the chief demands of six opposition parties in negotiations with the HDZ. Kovacevic assumes President Tudjman is not informed about SZUP's work, although by law he should be. He also demands the resignation of Interior Minister Ivan Penic, whom Kovacevic also wants to produce the order issued for the tapping of his telephone conversations. He also wants the note informing President Tudjman about the order. Kovacevic demands of Ivan Milas, head of parliament's Committee for Internal Affairs and State Security, to enable the committee's members to view a SZUP document which, according to 'Nacional' weekly, describes the tapping of telephone conversations of 78 citizens. Kovacevic is a member of the Liberal Party. (hina) ha jn