HDZ OFFICIALS VISIT INDICTED GENERAL

ZAGREB, Sept 20 (Hina) - A Vice-President of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), Andrija Hebrang, on Friday said the behaviour of the incumbent government had led to the issuance of a UN war crimes tribunal indictment against General Janko Bobetko. #L# "This is the last test at which it can correct all that it has ruined over for two and a half years," said Hebrang, who together with HDZ President Ivo Sanader, Sanader's deputy Jadranka Kosor, and the HDZ parliamentary bench head Vladimir Seks visited Bobetko at his home. The government can correct its failures by refusing to extradite its citizens and by adopting changes to the law on cooperation with the tribunal, Hebrang said. Asked by reporters whether there were indications that this might happen, Hebrang replied that it was what Premier Ivica Racan promised in the Sabor yesterday. Sanader said the HDZ stated its position regarding the Bobetko case in parliament yesterday. "General Bobetko is a hero, a symbol, and a legend of the defence of the Homeland War, an honest man who is certainly not a war criminal. General Bobetko isn't going to The Hague," he said. (hina) ms sb