Law on secret files to be adopted soon

State Secretary of the Justice Ministry Slobodan Homen said that he hopes the law on secret files would be adopted by the end of the year.

Izvor: Tanjug

Saturday, 04.09.2010.

09:55

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State Secretary of the Justice Ministry Slobodan Homen said that he hopes the law on secret files would be adopted by the end of the year. He said that this law would allow access to secret service files on citizens created during the second half of the 20th century. Law on secret files to be adopted soon Most parties with seats in the parliament told the Tanjug agency that they also favored allowing access to those files. That law is a condition for EU membership, "because opening those files is a matter of respect for human rights and shows the government's role in this," Homen told Tanjug. The draft law was written by the Serbian Renewal Movement. Party Vice-President Srdjan Sreckovic told Tanjug that he expects the Justice Ministry to review the bill very soon. "I honestly expect it to enter parliamentary procedures by the end of the year, and based on current signals, I think a consensus on the issue is expected," Sreckovic noted. According to Homen, the bill needs to be harmonized first. The bill is supported also by the Socialist Party of Serbia, Liberal Democratic Party and Serbian Progressive Party, while the Democratic Party of Serbia and New Serbia are against it. The Serbian Radical Party has nothing against the document in general, but fears political abuse, the party stated. The first campaign to unseal the secret files was launched in December 2001 by a non-governmental organization of lawyers advocating human rights. There have been other attempts to do so in the meantime, but the law has not been adopted.

Law on secret files to be adopted soon

Most parties with seats in the parliament told the Tanjug agency that they also favored allowing access to those files.

That law is a condition for EU membership, "because opening those files is a matter of respect for human rights and shows the government's role in this," Homen told Tanjug.

The draft law was written by the Serbian Renewal Movement. Party Vice-President Srđan Srećković told Tanjug that he expects the Justice Ministry to review the bill very soon.

"I honestly expect it to enter parliamentary procedures by the end of the year, and based on current signals, I think a consensus on the issue is expected," Srećković noted.

According to Homen, the bill needs to be harmonized first.

The bill is supported also by the Socialist Party of Serbia, Liberal Democratic Party and Serbian Progressive Party, while the Democratic Party of Serbia and New Serbia are against it.

The Serbian Radical Party has nothing against the document in general, but fears political abuse, the party stated.

The first campaign to unseal the secret files was launched in December 2001 by a non-governmental organization of lawyers advocating human rights. There have been other attempts to do so in the meantime, but the law has not been adopted.

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