Commenting on statements by former President Stjepan Mesic who told the Novi List daily that the video recording of the Brijuni meeting was forwarded to the Hague war crimes tribunal by the Counter-Intelligence Agency (POA) at whose helm at the time was Tomislav Karamarko, Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor told reporters on Friday that she talked to Karamarko this morning about that and that she requested a report on the work of the government's Office for Cooperation with the ICTY at the rime.
"I spoke with Karamarko today, but before that I, as the prime minister, asked that all facts that are being mentioned now be checked. I requested a thorough report on the work of the government's office at the time in question so that all true fact are on the table," Kosor said on Friday, while laying wreaths at Zagreb's central Mirogoj cemetery on the occasion of Easter holidays.
Kosor declined to say what did Interior Minister Karamarko said during their talks, adding that Karamarko would address the press later today.
Former president Mesic said in an interview for Novi List that neither he nor his office had ever directly forwarded any of the so-called Tudjman transcripts to the ICTY, stressing that the original audio recording of the Brijuni meeting was discovered by the Counter-Intelligence Agency, at the helm of which was Karamarko, that it confirmed its authenticity and forwarded it to the Hague tribunal.
Mesic said that in January 2001, the government became the owner of the entire documentation and that all requests for the submission of transcripts went through the government’s office for cooperation with the Hague tribunal.
