Public Information Commissioner, Rodoljub Šabić and Jens Modvig, Director of the United Nations Representative Office in our country discussed results and problems of the Serbian democratic transition process, and particularly the realization of the freedom of access to information as a crucial prerequisite for the successful transition process.       

Having the aforesaid in mind, Public Information Commissioner, Rodoljub Šabić, said:

„The UN Representative Office Director supported the efforts aimed at promoting the access to information and estimated that the work of the Public Information Commisioner and his office showed valuable results.

During the conversation it was agreed that the freedom of access to information represented a significant tool for achieving very important goals of transition, such as authorities controlled by the public, modern government and the democratic society media.  A separate issue that was discussed was how the access to information adds up, i.e. can add up to combating misuse and corruption.

We agreed that it is very important that our authorities tend to work day-in-day-out on promoting their public relations, increasing the level of transparency of their acts and making more and more information accessible to the public. I am satisfied with the fact that this conversation confirmed as well that in the implementation of democratic standards on the freedom of access to information we can count on support and assistance of the UN'.