Seks made this statement on Thursday afternoon responding to the resignation of head of the Croatian parliamentary delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Tonino Picula, and a delegation member, Miroslav Jozic, after they accused the Sabor chief of preventing them from attending the whole meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly in Kiev on July 5-9
Earlier in the day, Picula said the Croatian delegation would not attend at all the Parliamentary Assembly's annual meeting in the Ukrainian capital because Seks authorised the delegation to attend only part of the meeting, on July 7-9, because he wanted all the deputies to vote in a July 6 Sabor session.
Picula said he would notify Parliamentary Assembly president Goeran Lenamarker and OSCE Mission to Croatia chief Jorge Fuentes.
Seks told Hina that Picula's statement was only partly correct. He explained that in June Picula had asked him to authorise the delegation's stay in Kiev on 5-9 July.
But, the parliamentary voting on the discussed motions, including those that require a majority vote, is scheduled for tomorrow, 6 July, said Seks adding that he had suggested that the members of the delegation - Picula (Social Democratic Party), Rozic (Croatian Party of Rights) and Mario Zubovic (Croatian Democratic Union) travel to Kiev after the voting procedure in the Sabor and stay there for four days.
"Voting is sacred and I cannot allow anyone to go to other assemblies outside Croatia," Seks said adding that he had conducted such practice since he became the Sabor Speaker and that nobody had opposed it before.