ZAGREB, March 9 (Hina) - Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said on Tuesday, after meeting OSCE Secretary-General Jan Kubis, that some parts of indictments against generals Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac were completely
unacceptable for the Croatian government.
ZAGREB, March 9 (Hina) - Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said on
Tuesday, after meeting OSCE Secretary-General Jan Kubis, that some
parts of indictments against generals Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and
Mladen Markac were completely unacceptable for the Croatian
government.#L#
"Some allegations from the indictments are completely unacceptable and
we are discussing the most suitable ways, within the framework of
cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal, to challenge those
allegations," Sanader said.
Asked to state which allegations he was referring to, Sanader said
briefly: "Some which concern the nature of the Homeland War".
"The indictments, of course, can be challenged only in The Hague. The
government is considering all measures and instruments, from amici
curiae to others, to defend the truth about the Homeland War," Sanader
said, recalling that Croatia has a parliamentary declaration on the
Homeland War which clearly states the nature of the war.
The PM said that he would meet on Monday with the parliament's
presidency, party leaders and heads of clubs of deputies to inform
them about the "future course of events". Sanader would not comment on
requests that the parliament urgently include in its agenda a debate
on political allegations from the indictments.
The indictments against Gotovina, Cermak and Markac allege, among
other things, that the three, along with others, including the late
Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, participated in a joint criminal
enterprise aimed at the forcible and permanent removal of the Serb
population from the area of Krajina.
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