STATEMENT FOR PUBLIC

 Kukic is not a member of the Helsinki Committee 
for Human Rights in BiH any longer

1.      At the session held on 9th of March 2002, the Steering Board of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in BiH stated that membership of Slavo Kukic in this organisation ceased on 11th of February 2002.

The Steering Board rejected as groundless the estimate of the work of the Helsinki Committee and of the situation in that organisation expressed by Slavo Kukic in the text of resignation from the membership of the Helsinki Committee and in statements for public.

Public statements given by Slavo Kukic were not argumented on the basis of the human rights principles. Kukic did not relate to the international conventions, Constitution or laws of this country, but tried to disqualify the work of the organ of the Helsinki Committee and members of the Helsinki Committee by giving across-the-board labelling.

Slavo Kukic and Branko Todorovic did not use statutory possibilities to initiate discussion within the organ of the Helsinki Committee, Steering Board or Assembly on the viewpoints expressed by the President of the Helsinki Committee.

2.     The Steering Board estimated that the behaviour of Branko Todorovic was not in accordance with the platform of work and the Statute of the Helsinki Committee as well as with the function of the Secretary General of the Helsinki Committee, and brought the decision to remove him from this function.

Sarajevo, 9 March 2002
No.: 09A-03/2002