ZAGREB, Sept 27 (Hina) - The Croatian parliament on Friday night formally endorsed the government's intent to enter a legal dispute with the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) with regards to
an indictment against retired Croatian General Janko Bobetko.
ZAGREB, Sept 27 (Hina) - The Croatian parliament on Friday night
formally endorsed the government's intent to enter a legal dispute
with the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia (ICTY) with regards to an indictment against
retired Croatian General Janko Bobetko. #L#
MPs unanimously adopted conclusions , drawn up after a whole-day
discussion, backing the government and all other competent bodies
in instigating legal proceedings before the Hague tribunal, other
international courts and institutions, as well as in initiating
other processes to defend the interests of Croatia and Croatian
individuals.
The parliament demands of the government and other governmental
institutions to, in international relations and before
international community bodies, defend the fairness and legitimacy
of the Homeland Defence War and all military liberation
operations.
MPs also request that the government and its institutions defend
the Homeland War by continuing to try possible individual war
crimes and crimes against humanity committed during or after the
Homeland War, establishing the individual liability of the
perpetrator.
The parliament agreed that the government initiate a process before
the Constitutional Court to ascertain the constitutionality of the
Hague tribunal's indictment against Staff General Janko Bobetko.
The Constitutional Court will make its ruling in urgent procedure,
say the parliamentary conclusions for which all 121 members of
parliament voted.
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