ZAGREB, April 7 (Hina) - Prime Minister Ivo Sanader has said he was aware of General Rahim Ademi's financial problems in organising his defence before the Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal, adding that the matter will be seriously
discussed in the coming days.
ZAGREB, April 7 (Hina) - Prime Minister Ivo Sanader has said he was
aware of General Rahim Ademi's financial problems in organising his
defence before the Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal, adding that the
matter will be seriously discussed in the coming days.#L#
According to Croatian media reports, the tribunal's registry has
assessed that Ademi, who possesses a flat and car purchased on
installments and who owns together with his wife a holiday cottage,
can cover on his own 30 percent of all the costs of his defence,
namely he can ensure about 90,000 euros.
Asked by reporters about the video tape of General Ante Gotovina in
Knin in August 1995, PM Sanader, who on Wednesday was in the northern
city of Varazdin where his cabinet held a session, said that he did
not know from where the video tape appeared or whether the footasge,
obtained by the Globus weekly was authentic.
The video footage shows Gotovina at a meeting with army officers in
Knin on 6 August 1995 immediately upon the liberation of that southern
town.
PM Sanader reiterated on Wednesday that the government would do
everything it could to offer logistic and legal assistance to
Croatians indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal (ICTY).
He added that his cabinet would find models to be engaged in the
processes before the ICTY and to defend the truth about the Homeland
Defence War.
(Hina) ms sb