CROATIAN GOVERNMENT DOES NOT KNOW WHERE GOTOVINA IS

ZAGREB, June 20 (Hina) - The head of the Croatian Government's office for cooperation with the Hague war crimes tribunal, Orsat Miljenic, on Thursday stated the Croatian authorities were not familiar with General Ante Gotovina's whereabouts. #L# "The office has no knowledge of where he is," Miljenic said. The spokeswoman for the Hague tribunal's prosecution, Florence Hartmann, said in Sarajevo on Thursday the prosecution believed Gotovina was still in Croatia and that the Croatian government should take measures to have him arrested. A spokeswoman at Croatia's Interior Ministry, Zrinka Bardic, confirmed the Ministry did not know where Gotovina was either. "If the Interior Ministry and the police knew where Ante Gotovina was he would be arrested immediately on the basis of a domestic warrant by the Zagreb County Court and an international warrant by Interpol, filed at the order of the Hague tribunal," Bardic said. The tribunal has accused the Croatian general for crimes against humanity and violations of the law of war committed during the 1995 "Storm" military operation and after it. The charges include Croatia's leadership at the time for planning the ethnic cleansing of the Serb population from occupied Croatian territories. (hina) sp sb