ZAGREB, May 18, 2018 – Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović on Friday commented on a decision of the Conflict of Interest Commission not to launch proceedings against her over a trip to the United States, stressing that the January 2017 trip was transparent and that her office had forwarded all the documents that it was authorised to release.
The Conflict of Interest Commission said at its session today that it did not receive all the necessary documents about the president’s trip to the United States, but that from media reports it could not be concluded that the president had violated the principles of public office.
“I don’t see how I was non-transparent, given that the trip gave concrete results such as my bilateral meeting with Donald Trump,” the president said when asked to comment on the Commission’s decision.
The Office of the President has withheld certain documents about the trip from the Commission, claiming that they are top secret.