ZAGREB, Sept 20 (Hina) - Deputy Prime Minister Goran Granic has confirmed the claim from an article published in the Vjesnik daily on Sunday that the government has identified the person through which the family of General Ante
Gotovina maintains contact with the fugitive general wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal.
ZAGREB, Sept 20 (Hina) - Deputy Prime Minister Goran Granic has
confirmed the claim from an article published in the Vjesnik daily
on Sunday that the government has identified the person through
which the family of General Ante Gotovina maintains contact with
the fugitive general wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal. #L#
"The person in question is a citizen of the Republic of Italy,"
Granic told Croatian television on Saturday night, adding that the
government had notified the tribunal registrar.
Granic would not go into details, and when asked how the government
had obtained this information, he said: "On the basis of
intelligence work."
Quoting "reliable sources in Zagreb and The Hague", Vjesnik gave a
summary of a document the government sent to the tribunal in The
Hague on Wednesday. It said the document was marked confidential.
In the article headlined "The government doesn't know Gotovina's
whereabouts, but does know who his contact is", the newspaper says
that the Italian is Gotovina's longtime friend who made it possible
for him to escape from Croatia by ship in June 2001. Contact is still
maintained through this person, mainly via SMS messages.
The article says that the letter to the Hague tribunal describes the
steps the Croatian government has taken to arrest Gotovina.
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