Since the Law on the Asylum came into force, 195 requests have been submit and none granted. A total of 80 request have been denied, 100 stopped and 15 are still in the process of being solved, Radin said.
The majority of asylum seekers are men. The asylum requests were also submitted by eight families, 21 women and 16 children. Most of the asylum seekers came from India, Bangladesh, Turkey and Serbia and Montenegro.
Radin said that the majority of asylum requests were legally unfounded, because they were based on economic and not religious, political or racial reasons.
He, however, believes that there are reasons for concern, because the state's treatment of asylum seekers is one of the indicators of the level of democracy.
Deputy Parliament Speaker Mato Arlovic said Croatia had a moderns and liberal law on the asylum, which left enough room to establish whether an asylum seeker was in fact a persecuted person or whether he or she had fled their country of origin for other reasons.
The round table debate was organised by the Centre for Peace Studies in the Croatian Parliament.