CORRECTING ITEM "DEPUTY PM: GOVERNMENT KNOWS ABOUT ..."

ZAGREB, Sept 20 (Hina) - In item headlined "Deputy DM: Government Knows about Gotovina's Italian Contact", in first paragraph please read ... on Saturday .... instead of Sunday, and in second paragraph .... on Friday night .... instead of Saturday night (correcting time). A corrected report follows: ZAGREB, Sept 20 (Hina) - Deputy Prime Minister Goran Granic has confirmed the claim from an article published in the Vjesnik daily on Saturday 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 Friday 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. (hina) vm