Croatian Deference Minister Branko Vukelic on Wednesday dismissed media reports that Croatian soldiers in Afghanistan had participated in a combat mission and that his ministry had withheld that information from the public, stressing that the Croatian soldiers were only helping those injured in combat.
The minister said that an investigation was underway to establish why a report on the incident, submitted by the Croatian Army, was different than the one provided by the US security services.
"We are looking into why the report by Americans is different than ours. In any case, our reports from the field show that the operation in question involved retrieving the injured," Vukelic told Croatian Television, adding that the task of the Croatian troops in Afghanistan was to help retrieve the injured.
