CRO DEFENSE AND NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL HOLDS SESSION

ZAGREB, Mar 19 (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman yesterday chaired a session of the Defense and National Security Council, the President's Office said in a statement on Wednesday. Satisfaction with the international assessments of the high credit rating and the security of investing in Croatia was expressed, the statement said. It added that the session also discussed the results achieved so far in detecting and preventing all aspects of economic crime, especially corruption. Even though such phenomena were present in all countries with trade economy, countries in transition in particular, and even more than in Croatia, they must be firmly removed, the statement said. The necessity of bigger cooperation and efficiency of the state's supervising services and the judiciary in the systematic detection and prevention of such negative phenomena was stated during the discussion. In this respect also discussed was the mode of negotiating and signing of agreements between public enterprises and foreign partners, with particular stress on the personal responsibility of the public enterprises' management, their administrative and supervisory bodies, and related ministries, the statement concluded. (hina) ha jn 191619 MET mar 97