BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4760

HR-BULLETIN-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4760 BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4760HINA Zagreb 3 October 2002CROATIAN PRESIDENT ENDS TESTIMONY AT MILOSEVIC TRIALTHE HAGUE, Oct 3 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic on Thursday ended his testimony in the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic before the Hague-based war crimes tribunal with a statement that he had always advocated positive discrimination of minorities and that his policy had never leaned on intimidation due to someone's ethnic origins. During the last half-hour of cross-examination, Milosevic tried to discredit the Croatian President and prove the role of Croatian authorities in the persecution of Croatian Serbs and the disintegration of Yugoslavia. Milosevic also cited the suffering of Serbs at Jasenovac, a Croatian WW2 concentration camp. Presiding Judge May warned Milosevic that he could not revolve around the same question all the time, reminding him that the witness had answered