The session of the Parliamentary Committee for Security and Defense, which was supposed to hold a control hearing of security sector leaders on Tuesday regarding recent unfortunate incidents involving foreign citizens, could have been held if the parliamentary majority had wanted it - claims the leader of the opposition Civic Movement (GP) URA Dritan Abazovic.
He told "Vijesti" that the session was not postponed due to his and the independent MP's non-attendance. Jevrosime Pejović in parliament, but because the government deputies, "cowardly", did not provide a quorum.
He said that he did not want a topic of exceptional importance to society to be discussed in a "dead room" (a parliamentary room for considering classified materials), away from the public eye.
Pejović told "Vijesti" that she was absent due to private obligations and that she expects the session to be held on November 28. She pointed out that the Parliament often schedules sessions of working bodies without taking into account the international obligations of MPs.
A hearing on the topic of "Disinformation by the security sector regarding the incident in Zabjelo in which a Montenegrin citizen was wounded, on the basis of which the Government abolished the visa-free regime with Turkey", was requested last week by MPs from the Democratic Party of Socialists. Danijel Zivkovic i Nikola Janović, Social Democrat Nikola Zirojevic, and Abazović and Pejović.
The government introduced visas for Turkey at the end of October, after an incident involving foreign nationals. Police initially claimed that they were involved in the wounding of a Podgorica resident. MJ On the evening of October 25, citizens of Turkey and Azerbaijan participated in Zabjelo, which caused a series of xenophobic incidents - derogatory chants, demolition of catering facilities in several cities, burning of cars owned by Turkish citizens... After the High Court determined that there was no evidence against the two initially arrested Turkish citizens N. D. (54) and Azerbaijan YG (31), because it was proven that they had no connection to the crime, the police arrested the Azerbaijanis in early November JM (45) and EM (33)
Abazović and Pejović did not attend the Committee meeting on Tuesday, which is why after entering the so-called deaf room, the questioning of the Minister of Internal Affairs was Danilo Saranovic, Acting Director of Police Lazar Šćepanović and the Director of the National Security Agency (ANB) Ivica Janović postponed.
Abazović said that he expected the Zabjelo incident to be discussed in the open part of the session.
"If the parliamentary majority wanted to hold a session of the Security and Defense Committee, they would have done so, because they have the majority in that body. This means that it was not postponed because of me and my colleague Pejović, because they are two of the 13 members of the Committee, and we could not have influenced whether or not the session was held," he said.
The Security Committee has 13 members, eight of whom are from the government and five from the opposition.
However, as Abazović added, the majority chose, instead of explaining what is so secret about the mistakes that followed the Zabjelo incident that they would have to hide in a "deaf room", to accuse opposition MPs of postponing the session.
"I didn't come because I don't agree to discussing behind closed doors what citizens need to hear," said Abazović.
He said that the government and the security sector must stop "spin" and offer citizens the truth - why and in whose interest they "transferred all their anger to the citizens of Turkey", made arrests and introduced visas to Turkey, if it ultimately turned out that Azerbaijani citizens were involved in the incident.
"Someone must bear responsibility for the domestic and international embarrassment of the state, which was the result of false claims by the security sector and disinformation that could have had catastrophic consequences for our community. There is no 'dead room' that can cover up this scandal, because it has been heard about far and wide," Abazović concluded.
Abazović called on his colleagues to cross-examine their arguments in front of the public.
Abazović called on all colleagues to gather and cross-examine arguments in front of the public.
"The parliament serves the citizens, and the government should keep private gatherings, in which only elected representatives participate, to itself," Abazović concluded.
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