PARLIAMENT PRESIDENT INFORMS FINNISH DELEGATION ON BOBETKO CASE

ZAGREB, Sept 24 (Hina) - Croatian parliamentary president Zlatko Tomcic said Monday night that he had informed a Finnish delegation visiting Croatia about the Hague-based international war crimes tribunal's indictment against retired Croatian General Janko Bobetko and said that "this was a great surprise" to Croatia, especially considering the content of the indictment. #L# "There are very serious indications that individual responsibility will be very difficult to derive from the indictment, and the case is an extended interpretation of superior responsibility including a definition that the Medak Pocket operation's goal was persecution under national and religious basis," Tomcic told Hina. "We clearly stated that we are not avoiding cooperation with the tribunal, ... but this represents a serious precedent with which the Hague prosecution is demonstrating the politicisation of the tribunal," Tomcic said. Apart from the Bobetko case, the two sides also spoke about parliamentary cooperation which was assessed as very good. (hina) lml