ZAGREB, June 10 (hina) - Croatian Parliament President Zlatko Tomcic said Tuesday he did not expect an interview with ICTY indictee Ante Gotovina, published in the latest issue of the Nacional weekly, to cause disturbance on the
Croatian political scene.
ZAGREB, June 10 (hina) - Croatian Parliament President Zlatko
Tomcic said Tuesday he did not expect an interview with ICTY
indictee Ante Gotovina, published in the latest issue of the
Nacional weekly, to cause disturbance on the Croatian political
scene. #L#
"I see no reason why anybody's interview should provoke disturbance
on the political scene. On the contrary, I believe that the
interview, of course under the assumption that it is authentic,
could only calm the situation," Tomcic said.
Tomcic welcomed General Gotovina's "readiness to be interviewed by
ICTY investigators as a suspect and to voluntarily go The Hague
should the tribunal stick to the indictment".
Asked to comment on the fact that a reporter could reach the
fugitive general for whom police have been unsuccessfully
searching, Tomcic told reporters "the situation would be worrying
for police and authorities only if the interview had been done in
Croatia". "However, I truly believe that the interview was
conducted outside Croatia," Tomcic said.
Commenting on Gotovina's statement that the former and the
incumbent government had failed to inform him of the ICTY
investigators' interest in him, Tomcic said he had no information
that the ICTY wanted to talk to him.
"I will allow that there are persons who knew the ICTY wanted to
interview Gotovina, but I personally knew nothing about it," said
Tomcic.
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