ZAGREB, Oct 11 (Hina) - Croatian Premier Ivica Racan confirmed on Friday that he had met with the lawyers and doctor of General Janko Bobetko earlier in the day, but he declined to speak about the contents and results of that
meeting.
ZAGREB, Oct 11 (Hina) - Croatian Premier Ivica Racan confirmed on
Friday that he had met with the lawyers and doctor of General Janko
Bobetko earlier in the day, but he declined to speak about the
contents and results of that meeting. #L#
"This was a normal, working consultation," Racan said at a news
conference. He added that he could not answer whether or when Gen.
Bobetko would go to hospital.
The stand of the political forces is to define their share of
responsibility, Racan said responding to a question how much the
insistence of the opposition HDZ party on changes to the
constitutional law on cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal
was of the help to the incumbent government in the current
situation.
Racan recalled that at his meeting with the European Troika earlier
in the day, the European Union's representatives said the Union was
with great concern following discussions which were being held in
Croatia about the Bobetko case.
Asked whether after receiving the EU's protest note, he talked with
the head of state, Racan responded: "It is my duty to communicate
with the President of the Republic."
The European Union on Friday forwarded the protest note to the
Croatian government in which it expresses its strong support for
the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the international community's resoluteness
to bring all war crimes indictees to justice.
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