ZAGREB, April 17 (Hina) - A senior Croatian government official said on Wednesday that new indictments against persons from Croatia were not discussed during yesterday's visit of the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal
Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Carla Del Ponte, to Zagreb.
ZAGREB, April 17 (Hina) - A senior Croatian government official
said on Wednesday that new indictments against persons from Croatia
were not discussed during yesterday's visit of the Chief Prosecutor
of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia
(ICTY), Carla Del Ponte, to Zagreb. #L#
"Without diplomatic speculations, I must say that we didn't discuss
new indictments at all during today's talks," the head of the
government's office in charge of cooperation with the ICTY, Frane
Krnic, said in an interview on Croatian Television.
Krnic said he believed the current situation did not indicate new
indictments.
According to him, the only certain thing is that investigations are
being conducted with the aim of issuing new indictments or
dismissing suspicions.
Commenting on the case of an ICTY indictee, General Ante Gotovina,
the government official said the prosecutor "has gone a step
further in her belief that Croatia is doing what it can under the
current circumstances".
"We expect pressure from the ICTY Prosecution in that case, but we
also believe that the possibilities which competent Croatian
bodies have in that case will be viewed more realistically," Krnic
said.
He did not exclude the possibility of some people in Croatia being
banned movement in the European Union, in line with a decision of
the EU on sanctioning people harbouring war crimes indictees.
"I do not exclude the possibility that those measures will be
applied against some people in Croatia as well, but at the moment
there is no tangible evidence of that," Krnic said when asked if
such sanctions could be imposed on people harbouring General
Gotovina.
(hina) rml