ZAGREB, Jan 27 (Hina) - Croatian Interior Minister Ivan Penic on Wednesday reiterated his earlier claim that no one was tapping the phones of Croatian citizens. Penic made this statement during question time at today's session of the
Croatian Sabor's House of Representatives. "Those methods are applied only to those (persons) who represent a security problem", Penic said answering a question by Bozo Kovacevic of the Liberal Party (LS). Kovacevic asked about the actual authors of a document about phone tapping, published in the "Nacional" weekly and signed by the head of the Constitutional Order Protection Service (SZUP), Ivan Brzovic. Penic answered that the document was "not a SZUP document" and added that Interior Ministry services had started "an investigation into its origin". "Croatia is not being punished and it has made no concessions to anyone", Foreign Minister Mate Granic said re
ZAGREB, Jan 27 (Hina) - Croatian Interior Minister Ivan Penic on
Wednesday reiterated his earlier claim that no one was tapping the
phones of Croatian citizens.
Penic made this statement during question time at today's session
of the Croatian Sabor's House of Representatives.
"Those methods are applied only to those (persons) who represent a
security problem", Penic said answering a question by Bozo
Kovacevic of the Liberal Party (LS).
Kovacevic asked about the actual authors of a document about phone
tapping, published in the "Nacional" weekly and signed by the head
of the Constitutional Order Protection Service (SZUP), Ivan
Brzovic.
Penic answered that the document was "not a SZUP document" and added
that Interior Ministry services had started "an investigation into
its origin".
"Croatia is not being punished and it has made no concessions to
anyone", Foreign Minister Mate Granic said replying to Anto
Kovacevic (Croatian Christian Democratic Union, HKDU), who
expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that Croatia's foreign
policy was "conceding".
Granic replied that Croatia had never given anything to anyone nor
did it intend to do so. The setting of borders with all of its
neighbours is proceeding well. Progress has been made in talks with
Slovenia, and the two sides reached an agreement on 99.1 per cent of
the land border. The problem of the border in Piran Bay is nearing a
temporary and satisfactory solution, while a permanent one will be
sought before the International Court for the Law of the Sea in
Hamburg, Granic said.
He described as positive the process of resolving the question of
borders with Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Croatia is on the right path to solve the problem of Prevlaka
(Croatia's southern-most peninsula bordering with Yugoslavia),
Granic said. He stressed the importance of the adopted principle of
the unchangeability of the land border adding that the border on
Prevlaka would remain the same as on June 25, 1991.
The current course of talks on Prevlaka, for which we have received
support, is aimed at completing the mandate of UN forces and make it
the last one, Granic said answering a question by Anto Djapic of the
Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) on Prevlaka and opening of two border
crossings (Debeli Brijeg and Konfin) on the border with
Yugoslavia.
Granic informed that the Dubrovnik County prefect and local
officials, at a meeting held on Tuesday, welcomed the opening of the
two border crossings, which was especially welcomed by Croats from
Boka Kotorska bay.
The opening of the two border crossings, especially Konfin,
contributes to the normalisation of relations with Yugoslavia and
the resolution of the problem of Prevlaka. Granic said he expected a
permanent solution to Prevlaka to be found in the next six months.
At the beginning of today's session, MPs set a 31-item agenda.
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