ZAGREB/BRUSSELS, Feb 18 (Hina) - The chairwoman of the European Parliament's delegation for relations with south-eastern Europe has said that she cannot accept that Croatia's process of drawing closer to European Union be halted by
the case of General Ante Gotovina, Croatian Television reported in the prime time news on Wednesday evening.
ZAGREB/BRUSSELS, Feb 18 (Hina) - The chairwoman of the European
Parliament's delegation for relations with south-eastern Europe has
said that she cannot accept that Croatia's process of drawing closer
to European Union be halted by the case of General Ante Gotovina,
Croatian Television reported in the prime time news on Wednesday
evening.#L#
I cannot accept that the case of a fugitive general stops everything.
This is a burden on Croatia. I do not think that the Netherlands and
Great Britain are doing a good thing by looking only at this isolated
case, the television quoted Doris Pack as saying at the end of a
two-day meeting of the European Parliament's delegation and the
Croatian parliamentary committee for European integration in
Brussels.
If Mr. Gotovina is a good Croat he should appear in The Hague and then
he can prove whether charges against him are partially correct or do
not at all match reality, Pack was quoted by Thursday's issue of
Vecernji List daily as saying.
According to this Croatian paper, Pack called on Gotovina to turn
himself in to the Hague-based tribunal.
The chairman of the Croatian committee, Neven Mimica said that at the
Brussels meeting, European parliamentarians commended Croatia for
evident progress it made on its path towards the European Union.
"They expect that the remaining small effort be made, particularly
with regard to cooperation with the Hague tribunal," Mimica was quoted
by the same daily as saying.
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