Croatian PM supports National Security Council session

KUPARI, March 3 (Hina) - Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic on Monday supported President Ivo Josipovic's initiative to hold a session of the National Security Council on hiring in security services in connection with Novi List daily's claims that a person who had not passed security clearance was employed at the Security and Intelligence Agency (SOA) in 2007, when it was led by incumbent opposition leader Tomislav Karamarko.Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic on Monday supported President Ivo Josipovic's initiative to hold a session of the National Security Council on hiring in security services in connection with Novi List daily's claims that a person who had not passed security clearance was employed at the Security and Intelligence Agency (SOA) in 2007, when it was led by incumbent opposition leader Tomislav Karamarko. "If what a daily published is authentic, it's something much worse than crime," Milanovic told reporters. "It's less evil if someone steals something than if they do such things, toppling the Croatian state. I don't intend to deal with this personally nor should the incumbent guys at SOA. There are parliamentary bodies which will do that, as well as the National Security Council, and I support this initiative." Speaking to Novi List after it reported that Karamarko hired a man who had not passed security clearance in SOA while he headed it, Josipovic said "the security system might have been reached." He added that he proposed convening the National Security Council to discuss hiring in security services.