CROATIAN PM TO MEET ICTY CHIEF PROSECUTOR IN ZAGREB MONDAY

ZAGREB, Oct 3 (Hina) - Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan will receive the chief prosecutor of the UN war crimes tribunal at the Hague (ICTY), Carla Del Ponte, on Monday. Del Ponte will arrive in Zagreb for a day-long visit. #L# She is expected to submit a report on the work of the Prosecutor's Office to the UN Security Council on October 9. The meeting will also be attended by Deputy PM Goran Granic, Justice Minister Ingrid Anticevic Marinovic, the head of the government's office for cooperation with the ICTY and international criminal courts, Jaksa Muljacic, Police Chief Ranko Ostojic and Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic, the government said in a statement. The government expects Del Ponte to confirm in Zagreb that the ICTY prosecution encountered no problems while seeking assistance from the authorities in Croatia. At a meeting between Granic and Del Ponte, held in The Hague on September 26, it was said that the main unsolved problem in Croatia's cooperation with the tribunal was the issue of the arrest of General Ante Gotovina, who has been at large for over two years. At that meeting, Del Ponte dismissed the Croatian delegation's claims that according to all available data Gotovina was not in Croatia and that Croatian authorities could not arrest him. She insisted the fugitive general was in Croatia. Other segments of Croatia's cooperation with the ICTY, such as the hand-over of requested documents, were assessed as satisfactory. (Hina) it sb