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JUSTICE MINISTER SAYS WOULD NOMINATE DAMASKA AND KRAPAC FOR AMICI CURIE

ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - Croatian Justice Minister Vesna Skare Ozboltsaid on Monday she would propose two friends of the court (amicicurie) to the International Criminal Tribunal for the formerYugoslavia (ICTY). The two law experts would answer the ICTY questionson the competence of Croatia's judiciary for taking over theAdemi-Norac case.
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - Croatian Justice Minister Vesna Skare Ozbolt said on Monday she would propose two friends of the court (amici curie) to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The two law experts would answer the ICTY questions on the competence of Croatia's judiciary for taking over the Ademi-Norac case.

The two men are prominent law experts and law professors Mirjan Damaska and Davor Krapac, Skare Ozbolt told Croatian Radio.

"Given that the ICTY Trial Chamber will have questions regarding the competence of our judiciary, we will forward to the tribunal a request for forming the institute of amici curie," the minister said.

"We plan to propose professors Mirjan Damask and Davor Krapac as people who will answer ICTY questions regarding the competence of our judiciary," she said.

Should this proposal be accepted, the Ademi-Norac case would the the first case which the ICTY would refer to a national judiciary, Croatian Radio said.

The ICTY Prosecutor's Office issued a combined indictment against Generals Rahim Ademi and Mirko Norac on May 27. The two generals are charged with crimes committed during the Medak Pocket operation in 1993. The combined indictment was confirmed on July 30 by presiding judge Liu Daqun.

After an indictment was issued against him, Ademi voluntarily surrendered to the ICTY on 25 July 2001 and pleaded not guilty, He was provisionally released pending trial in Febriary 2002.

A Croatian court sentenced Norac to 12 years in prison for war crimes in Gospic in 1991. The ICTY indicted him on 20 May 2004. On July 8, Norac was transferred to from the Rijeka-based prison to The Hague where he entered a not guilty plea to all five charges of the indictments. The trial chamber decided Norac should be in detention in Croatia until the start of the trial.

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