THE HAGUE, Sept 30 (Hina) - Spokesman Jim Landale confirmed on Monday that the Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal had received a Croatian government request for filing an interlocutory appeal against an arrest and surrender warrant
for Gen. Janko Bobetko.
THE HAGUE, Sept 30 (Hina) - Spokesman Jim Landale confirmed on
Monday that the Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal had received a
Croatian government request for filing an interlocutory appeal
against an arrest and surrender warrant for Gen. Janko Bobetko.
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The tribunal received the request in Croatian, said Landale.
Asked about further procedure, he said the document first had to be
translated.
The interlocutory appeal request which the Croatian government
delivered to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia late last Friday is a document seeking permission to
file an appeal against the warrant for Bobetko's arrest and
surrender.
The government's representative in the Bobetko case, Goran
Mikulicic, said on Friday that appealing against an arrest and
surrender warrant is not explicitly allowed, for which reason the
government had submitted a request for an interlocutory appeal.
Mikulicic, who wrote the request, said the request should be ruled
on by an ad hoc three-member trial chamber, which is convened solely
for this occasion. If the trial chamber approves the request,
Croatia may appeal against the Bobetko arrest and surrender
warrant.
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