"We still don't have information about those document or whether they even exist," Kristo told Banja Luka daily Nezavisne Novine.
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.
Earlier this week, Bosnian Croats officials held a closed-door session at which they considered 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.
Liaison Officer with the ICTY Goran Mihaljevic has said officials in his office will immediately contact all war-time officials of Herzceg-Bosna and try to find out were the documents in question are.
According to the Sarajevo media, current HDZ officials firmly dismissed the possibility that some HDZ members did not wish to cooperate with the ICTY.