BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH No. 5358

THE HAGUE, June 24 (Hina) - Croatian Justice Minister VesnaSkare-Ozbolt on Thursday met the president of the Hague war crimestribunal, Theodor Meron, briefing him about the steps Croatia hadtaken to adjust its legislation and create conditions to be able totake over cases from the UN tribunal, as well as about an OSCE reporton war crimes trials in Croatia. Defence attorneys for Croatian generalsMladen Markac and Ivan Cermak said at a status conference in The Hagueon Thursday that they had obtained a deadline for the submission ofobjections to the indictment that was twice longer than the deadlinewhich pre-trial judge Kevin Parker was willing to give them, whichthey considered a sign of goodwill before the submission of theirmotion to grant their clients release pending trial. The Supreme Court has dismissed as unfoundedthe appeals lodged by the state prosecutor and war crimes indicteesTihomir Oreskovic, Stjepan Grandic and Mirko No