PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE ON SECURITY INVESTIGATES "DRACEVAC CASE"

ZAGREB, June 11 (Hina) - The chairwoman of the Croatian Parliament's Committee on Internal Affairs and National Security, Djurdja Adlesic, said on Monday the Committee concluded that there had been numerous oversights in the organisation of President Stjepan Mesic's visit to the Dracevac barracks in Split and that those who failed to carry out their duties professionally would be called to account. #L# Some persons who are responsible for the incident in the Dracevac barracks, which happened in early May during President Mesic's visit to the barracks, when a group of retired members of the Croatian army's 4th Guard Brigade and relatives of the brigade's killed members jeered and shouted insults at the President, will have to resign, Adlesic told reporters. The Committee will present concrete data this week after it holds another session and the entire matter will be resolved in about ten days, Adlesic said. The Committee today interviewed the ministers of defence and internal affairs as well as top officials of Croatia's secret services. Which service has received most criticism in reports about the incident will be known after the next session of the Committee, Adlesic said. The Committee insists on speeding up the adoption of a package of defence laws, not only for the sake of Croatia's admission to NATO, but because it wants relations between the Main Staff and the Defence Ministry to be defined more clearly. "Until then, we will insist that relations as envisaged by the existing law be respected," Adlesic stressed. Asked whether some of the intelligence services would be dissolved, Adlesic said one should wait for a law on national security and national security services to be adopted first. (hina) sb rml