The article, headlined "Is Ante Gotovina in Herzegovina?", referred to the recent visits by Croatian Health Minister Andrija Hebrang and Education Minister Dragan Primorac and a visit by Parliament President Vladimir Seks, which is announced for next week.
"While some analysts see these visits as a sign of growing support by the Croatian government to this country and to the Bosnian Croats, and of its efforts to fulfil its obligation to assist Bosnia-Herzegovina in the process of integration with the European Union, others are inclined to think that there is an additional reason for their visits -- the most wanted Croatian fugitive sought by the Hague tribunal, General Ante Gotovina," the article said.
The newspaper recalled statements by top Croatian officials, including President Stjepan Mesic, who said that Croatia could not be blamed for the Gotovina case because the fugitive general was not staying on its territory and it therefore was unable to meet the demand of the Hague tribunal to arrest him.
"However, the report that, according to the information of the Hague tribunal, Gotovina was seen last summer in Dalmatia in an area close to the border with Herzegovina leads to the conclusion that the foreign country in which Gotovina is staying is Bosnia-Herzegovina," the article said.
The daily said that one of the reasons of Seks's visit to Mostar next week was to talk to local officials about Gotovina and his possible whereabouts in western Herzegovina.