ZAGREB, Feb 24 (Hina) - Croatia's council for cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has dismissed media speculations about Justice Minister's dissatisfaction with a report of the
Interior Ministry on activities of security services pertaining to the case of the fugitive General Ante Gotovina and about her returning the document to competent bodies to elaborate it.
ZAGREB, Feb 24 (Hina) - Croatia's council for cooperation with the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has
dismissed media speculations about Justice Minister's dissatisfaction
with a report of the Interior Ministry on activities of security
services pertaining to the case of the fugitive General Ante Gotovina
and about her returning the document to competent bodies to elaborate
it.#L#
According to the Justice Ministry, the council in charge of
cooperation with the Hague-based tribunal received and discussed the
said report at its first session and the document would be sent to the
UN court by the end of this month.
The document is a regular report on measures which Croatia has taken
so far to execute the court warrant regarding the case of Gen.
Gotovina. Under the tribunal's rule book, Zagreb is obliged to forward
reports of this kind to the tribunal's registry and the Chief
Prosecutor.
The Interior Ministry on Tuesday declined to comment on the article
published by a daily which claimed that Justice Minister Vesna Skare
Ozbolt sent back to Interior Minister Marijan Mlinaric the report on
the Gotovina case as she was dissatisfied with it. According to the
paper, Minister Skare Ozbolt insisted on detailed data on actions,
measures and all other operations which the security services had
taken in the Gotovina case since the last report on the issue.
(Hina) ms sb