ZAGREB, June 26 (Hina) - "If there is any kind of misuse of intelligence services, we will deal with it," Ivan Milas said at Saturday's session of the Main Committee of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party. Milas called on
the Opposition to stop boycotting the work of the Committee for Internal Affairs and National Security of the Croatian National Parliament's House of Representatives "if it cares for the well-being of the state as the HDZ does". Milas, who is the chairman of the Committee for Internal Affairs and national Security, said intelligence services in Croatia had no greater authority than those in other countries, adding they were acting "exactly under the principles of western democracies". The tapping of telephones is being carried out n line with the law and is being used to "uncover all perfidious acts of the international Mafia which is passing over our territory, to the interest of all
ZAGREB, June 26 (Hina) - "If there is any kind of misuse of
intelligence services, we will deal with it," Ivan Milas said at
Saturday's session of the Main Committee of the ruling Croatian
Democratic Union (HDZ) party.
Milas called on the Opposition to stop boycotting the work of the
Committee for Internal Affairs and National Security of the
Croatian National Parliament's House of Representatives "if it
cares for the well-being of the state as the HDZ does".
Milas, who is the chairman of the Committee for Internal Affairs and
national Security, said intelligence services in Croatia had no
greater authority than those in other countries, adding they were
acting "exactly under the principles of western democracies".
The tapping of telephones is being carried out n line with the law
and is being used to "uncover all perfidious acts of the
international Mafia which is passing over our territory, to the
interest of all Croatian citizens".
Milas said claims that Croatian intelligence services did not work
under the law came from people who in January 1991 requested the
formation of a commission of inquiry, aiming to prove that the
Croatian Army and police were in fact under the HDZ.
According to Milas, intelligence services are being accused of
illegal actions also by those who claim that "resistance to a
national state is legitimate in the name of human rights".
Vladimir Seks, deputy president of the HDZ, said the trust of
Croatian citizens in their own country was one of the basic
programme reference-points of the HDZ and the crown of its policy.
According to Seks, trust of a law-based state is being undermined by
the ignorance of law for personal material profit, and a selective
application of laws.
This is being contributed to by international factors who are, with
political and economic pressures, protecting individuals and
groups who are ignoring Croatian laws.
At the same time, they are "denouncing Croatia as not being a law-
based state."
Seks said undermining the trust in the law-based state is also
contributed to by the politically motivated resistance of
employees in public administration and local self-administration
who, as he said, have an attitude towards the state as a rival.
Trust in a rule-based state is being undermines by true opponents of
the state who are planingly sapping the system, wishing to return to
the "hell we came out of".
At the end of his speech, Seks mentioned those who, using their
positions and privileges, think laws do not apply to them.
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