LIPOVICA, March 1 (Hina) - Croatian Parliament Speaker Vladimir Seks said on Thursday he hoped the "conflicts among the lawyers of Croatian generals indicted by the Hague war crimes tribunal will be smoothed out, because such
conflicts and shifting possible responsibility from one accused to the other could only please the tribunal's prosecution, which is at the expense of Croatian interests".
LIPOVICA, March 1 (Hina) - Croatian Parliament Speaker Vladimir
Seks said on Thursday he hoped the "conflicts among the lawyers of Croatian
generals indicted by the Hague war crimes tribunal will be smoothed out,
because such conflicts and shifting possible responsibility from one accused to
the other could only please the tribunal's prosecution, which is at the
expense of Croatian interests". Speaking to the press in Lipovica,
he said the conflict among lawyers also undermined the generals' defence and
the dispelling of the indictment's allegation of a joint criminal
enterprise.
Seks said it would be scandalous if the attorney Miroslav Separovic was
ousted from the defence of general Mladen Markac and if the general remained
without counsel two months before the trial was set to begin.
"I think the defence counsel of the other accused too should take a
resolute and clear position to the effect that as a lawyer, Separovic is not an
unavoidable and necessary witness as a minister from the period" relevant to
the indictment, said Seks.