27th Session of Committee for Secuirity and Defence

The Committee for Secuirity and Defence, in its session held on 29 September 2014, considered a Report on the work of the National Security Agency (ANB) for 2013. The Report, which the Committee had submitted to the Parliament, reads that the ANB Director informed the members of the working body that the activities of ANB during 2013 were on the course for realization of its competences, specified by the Law, and further implementation of reforms, in the circumstances of stable security environment.

The Committee, stating that the priorities in the work of ANB during 2013 were collecting, processing and analysing the data on activities aimed at conducting the acts, which could impact the overall security ambiance in Montenegro, which was stable, adopted the Report by majority vote, and passed the following:


CONCLUSIONS

1. The Committee considers that the security environment, in the period under this review, was ocassionally breached by organized crime groups’ inter-shoot-outs, but also by isolated incidents, and in that regard, the Committee requests from the National Security Agency (ANB) that the fight against organized crime would be further on the top of its set up agenda, which includes the continuation of full cooperation and coordination among the competent state bodies;

2. The National Security Agency (ANB), in the period under this review, intensified its activities in cooperation with other competent state bodies aimed at throwing light on some concrete cases of attacks on jounalists and media agencies and other criminal acts aimed at imtimidating, threathening and property destruction. The Committee requests from the Agency to continue with its activities aimed at intensive monitoring the phenomena and disclosing the perpetrators of crimes relatad to the attacks on journalists and media agencies;

3. In Montenegro, as a security challenge, also identified is an intensive inflow of migrants, particularly taking into consideration the possibility that they could be musused by the transnational crime groups and terrorist networks, which includes permanent monitoring of the phenomenon by the National Security Agency (ANB);

4. Having in mind the complexity of the phenomenon, such as religious extremism and radicalism, which was also identified through activities of extreme members of the Wahhabi ideology, the Committee considers that the National Security Agency (ANB), with the same commitment and engagement, should continue to monitor the phenomenon from the security aspect aimed at more effficiently responding the phenomenon through continuation of intensive and substantial international cooperation;

5. The Committee considers that it is necessary to amend the Code of the Criminal Law of Montenegro aimed at penelyzing all those who participate in war or armed conflicts abroad, in a foreign military, paramilitary, police or parapolice unit. It is also necessary to penalize those who, on the basis of extreme nationalistic ideology and religious extremism direct, organize or prepare for departure towards war theatres worldwide.

The president of the Committee, Mr. Mevludin Nuhodžić was determined as rapporteur of the Committee in the Parliament Session.