Security agency to submit report

The Security Information Agency (BIA) will submit a progress report today to the Defense and Security Committee. This will be BIA’s first report, and will cover the time period between June 2006 and October 2007. Security agency to submit report The report will have top secret status, and therefore, it is expected that parts of the meeting will be closed to the public. Parliamentary officials received the report yesterday and Committee President Ivica Dacic said that one of the topics of the meeting would be Hague cooperation and the search for the remaining fugitives. However, Dacic does not expect anything more than general responses from BIA officials. “In these reports we usually hear about the general state of security, an analysis of key factors, or security threats, such as the situation in south Serbia, in the Raska region, the abuse of minority rights, etc,” Dacic said. “Generally, this report is a summary and a compilation of everything that can be concluded at one point in time, and even if it was published in the media it wouldn’t be all that interesting, certainly not as much as other concrete cases and issues that, of course, will not be discussed tomorrow,” Dacic said. He expects ruling coalition officials to adopt the report, stating that there would be no negative effects even if the report was rejected. The report has been postponed several times. The Committee was originally due to convene in July, but this was postponed at the request of the ruling coalition as it coincided with important Kosovo meetings. It was then re-scheduled for October 25, when BIA officials were unable to attend because of Hague Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte's visit to Serbia. Ivica Dacic (FoNet)

Security agency to submit report

The report will have top secret status, and therefore, it is expected that parts of the meeting will be closed to the public.

Parliamentary officials received the report yesterday and Committee President Ivica Dačić said that one of the topics of the meeting would be Hague cooperation and the search for the remaining fugitives.

However, Dačić does not expect anything more than general responses from BIA officials.

“In these reports we usually hear about the general state of security, an analysis of key factors, or security threats, such as the situation in south Serbia, in the Raška region, the abuse of minority rights, etc,” Dačić said.

“Generally, this report is a summary and a compilation of everything that can be concluded at one point in time, and even if it was published in the media it wouldn’t be all that interesting, certainly not as much as other concrete cases and issues that, of course, will not be discussed tomorrow,” Dačić said.

He expects ruling coalition officials to adopt the report, stating that there would be no negative effects even if the report was rejected.

The report has been postponed several times. The Committee was originally due to convene in July, but this was postponed at the request of the ruling coalition as it coincided with important Kosovo meetings.

It was then re-scheduled for October 25, when BIA officials were unable to attend because of Hague Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte's visit to Serbia.