In a letter in late July, the tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, asked for minutes of sessions of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia-Herzegovina party, the Croatian Community of Herceg Bosna and the government of the Croatian Republic of Herceg Bosna
from April 1991 through December 1993.
Del Ponte said the documents must be submitted by September 30 at the latest. According to the media, she has threatened that in the contrary, prominent Croat officials in Bosnian bodies of authority will be dismissed, as was recently the case with 59 Bosnian Serb officials who were fired for not cooperating with the tribunal and for helping harbour war crimes indictees Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic.
Kristo told Radio Herceg Bosna today del Ponte would be notified about what was being done to meet her requests in early September.
Bosnian Croat leaders in bodies of authority met yesterday to consider a plan for tracing the documents in question. According to the media, some documents are in Zagreb, as were documents which led to the reduction of the Hague tribunal's sentence against Bosnian Croat general Tihomir Blaskic, who was recently released from prison.