DUBLIN, June 13 (Hina) - Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan said Friday "it would be useful both for General Gotovina and Croatia" if the general "took an additional step and fully cooperated with the Hague (war crimes)
tribunal".
DUBLIN, June 13 (Hina) - Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan said
Friday "it would be useful both for General Gotovina and Croatia" if
the general "took an additional step and fully cooperated with the
Hague (war crimes) tribunal". #L#
In talks with Croatian reporters in Dublin, which he is visiting
officially, Racan said circumstances had confirmed the objections
to some of the most important elements of the indictment against the
fugitive Croatian general which he had mentioned in a letter to the
tribunal's chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte some time ago.
"Considering the development of events at the Hague tribunal and
the Milosevic trial, at which many things we claimed and which I
stated in the letter to Carla Del Ponte were proven, which
objectively contested some elements of the indictment ... taking
all this into account, it would certainly be very good for both
General Gotovina and Croatia if he took an additional step and fully
cooperated with the Hague tribunal," the prime minister said.
He dismissed suggestions that the general's cooperation be made
conditional upon the suspension or revision of the indictment.
Such a condition "takes us and General Gotovina back ... full
cooperation is a good prospect both for him and Croatia, as well as
for the definite removal of the problem from the agenda," the PM
said.
"If by some chance General Gotovina had already been arrested or had
turned himself in, I could imagine the prosecution abandoning some
elements in the indictment of its own accord," Racan added.
(hina) lml