LIBRA PARTY SUPPORTS GOVT.'S POLICY OF COOPERATION WITH ICTY

ZAGREB, March 10 (Hina) - A vice-president of the Libra party, Vilim Herman, said on Wednesday his party supported the government's policy of full cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal and would act responsibly, refraining from joining in the competition for political points.#L# Libra is not insisting on a parliamentary debate about the tribunal's latest indictments because it believes such a debate would not contribute to anything and it does not want attempts at instrumentalising the issue for political purposes to be made again. The indictments will be discussed at next week's meeting of the parliament presidency, which will be attended by the leaders of parliamentary parties and clubs of deputies. Libra will demand the establishment of a parliamentary commission which in the next two years would prepare for the parliament, in cooperation with experts, a serious and thorough debate about the 1991-1995 wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, Herman said. Party vice-president Mladen Rozman said that despite disagreement with parts of the indictments Libra believed that the work of the Hague tribunal was of special importance for Croatia and offered an opportunity to take a definite position on war crimes, committed both in the Homeland War and World War II. The condemnation of every crime regardless of the nationality, religion or political affiliation of the perpetrators enables Croatia to finally get rid of the terror of all political options which covered up, downplayed or justified war crimes with "big political ideas or national interests", Rozman said. Libra officials also recalled that incumbent Prime Minister Ivo Sanader's statements about cooperation with the Hague tribunal while his HDZ party was in the opposition were one thing, and what he was saying today about that issue was another thing. (Hina) rml sb