ZAGREB, Sept 21 (Hina) - The president of the Croatian True Revival party (HIP), Miroslav Tudjman, said on Saturday that the government refusing to accept the indictment against retired general Janko Bobetko was a "marketing bluff"
which has proven as short-term.
ZAGREB, Sept 21 (Hina) - The president of the Croatian True Revival
party (HIP), Miroslav Tudjman, said on Saturday that the government
refusing to accept the indictment against retired general Janko
Bobetko was a "marketing bluff" which has proven as short-term.
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"The government's stance to enter a dispute with the Hague tribunal
does not solve the problem much," Tudjman said at a news
conference.
He added that the party supported suggestions for a referendum and
changes to the Constitutional Law on cooperation with the
international war crimes tribunal based on the results of the
referendum so that the relationship and cooperation between
Croatia and the Hague tribunal, whose prosecution, he said, "has
shown sloppiness and arrogance in its attitude towards Croatia",
could be regulated permanently.
Tudjman said the indictment against Bobetko should be viewed in the
context of international events, equating the Serb aggressor with
the Croatian victim and making relative the guilt of the aggressor
so Milosevic's situation in the tribunal could be easier. The
tribunal will begin presenting its evidence on aggression against
Croatia next week.
Tudjman said that a new series of indictments against Bosnian
Croats and Moslems were to be expected once the trial against
Milosevic for aggression against Bosnia begins.
He told reporters HIP had today adopted a decision to sign a long-
term cooperation charter with the Croatian Bloc "to create an
alternative to the incumbent government".
He called on all other opposition parties which share president
Franjo Tudjman's political heritage and accepted the "For a Modern
Croatia" programme to join the coalition, adding a special
invitation would be sent to the Croatian Democratic Union.
The national crisis in Croatia occurred because there is a lack of
consensus on the essential national values.
"Once we achieve this, the national crisis will be over and
conditions for solving the economic crisis will be created,"
Tudjman said.
"The indictment against General Bobetko is shaking the foundations
of the Croatian state," he said, adding that without a consensus on
the basic values, every Croatian politics and every elected
Croatian government would face the same issue, since the interest
of certain sections of the international community was for Croatia
to become integrated into western Balkan associations.
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