BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4763

HR-BULLETINS-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4763 BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4763HINA Zagreb 5 October 2002PRESIDENT SAYS CITIZENS SHOULD NOT DREAD SANCTIONSZAGREB, Oct 5 (Hina) - President Stjepan Mesic said in an interview with national television on Saturday that Croatian citizens need not be afraid of sanctions as everything the government was doing in the case of indicted Gen. Janko Bobetko was within the rules of work of the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague. The Hague tribunal's Statute envisages measures which a government may take to protect national interests, which is what the Croatian government is doing, Mesic said, stating that the government was doing fine. Speaking about his testimony at the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague earlier this week, Mesic said Croatia was and would continue cooperating with the tribunal as that was its international commitment, by which the government, parliament and all citizens have to