U.S. WELCOMES SURRENDER OF SIX BOSNIAN CROATS TO HAGUE TRIBUNAL

WASHINGTON, April 6 (Hina) - The United States on Tuesday welcomed the voluntary surrender of six Bosnian Croat indictees to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague and praised Croatia for the role it played in it.#L# The Unites States welcomes the voluntary surrender of six Bosnian Croats indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said in a statement. Jadranko Prlic, Bruno Stojic, Slobodan Praljak, Milivoj Petkovic, Valentin Coric and Berislav Pusic, charged with involvement in an ethnic cleansing campaign against Bosnian Muslims during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s, turned themselves in to the Hague tribunal on Monday. We also praise the role played by the Croatian government in facilitating their extradition and welcome the efforts of the Croatian government to cooperate with the tribunal as demonstrated through this act, Ereli said. We continue to call on all those indicted who are at large to surrender and all countries in the region to fully cooperate with the tribunal, including by arresting and extraditing fugitive war crimes indictees Ratko Mladic, Radovan Karadzic and Ante Gotovina, he said. (Hina) vm