Croatia's Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Suker said on Wednesday that he stood behind everything he had stated before the parliamentary commission of inquiry for INA's privatisation, and stressed that he did not implicate his former colleague from the government, Damir Polancec, in any way.
"I stand behind everything I said yesterday and I do not need to say anything different today. I did not accuse my colleague Polancec and I have no such intentions. I do not want to comment on what he said," Suker told reporters after a cabinet meeting in Zagreb today.
The deputy PM and finance minister reiterated that the modification of the shareholders' agreement with MOL was based on the first agreement signed with the Hungarian company on the purchase of INA's shares in 2003. Suker stressed that the 2003 agreement gave MOL bigger management rights than what was paid for.
"It's another matter that the government took the decision after the presentation by (Polancec) and that we all voted for it," Suker said.
In response to reporters' questions whether he stood behind his statement that he had not seen the new shareholders agreement before the government's meeting at which it was approved, Suker answered in the affirmative.
