So far we have discovered some of the requested documents and in the next several days we will go through thousands of documents and then we will know precisely which and how many to send to The Hague, Mihaljevic said. He declined to disclose where the documents were discovered.
Bosnian Croat officials said earlier that the whereabouts of the documents sought by the ICTY were unknown, while the media speculated that some documents could be in Zagreb.
The head of the Croatian Government Office for Cooperation with the ICTY, Jaksa Muljacic, recently confirmed he had received the Bosnian Croat liaison officer with the ICTY and added that Croatian officials gave Bosnian officials access to documents in the Croatian National Archive, given that Bosnian authorities believed that some documents were stored there.
The tribunal's prosecution asked for minutes of meetings of the Bosnian HDZ party, the government of the then Croat Republic of Herceg-Bosna and its parliament from April 1992 to December 1993 as relevant documents in the trial of senior Herceg-Bosna officials Jadranko Prlic, Bruno Stojic, Valentin Coric, Berislav Pusic and generals Slobodan Praljak and Milivoj Petkovic, .
ICTY chief war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte said the documents should be submitted no later than September 30.