ZAGREB, Oct 23 (Hina) - The government on Wednesday dismissed media speculation about an alleged conflict between the prime minister and his first deputy, Ivica Racan and Goran Granic respectively, in bids to resolve the case of
General Janko Bobetko against whom the Hague-based international war crimes tribunal has issued an indictment.
ZAGREB, Oct 23 (Hina) - The government on Wednesday dismissed media
speculation about an alleged conflict between the prime minister
and his first deputy, Ivica Racan and Goran Granic respectively, in
bids to resolve the case of General Janko Bobetko against whom the
Hague-based international war crimes tribunal has issued an
indictment. #L#
There is no reason for the media to amplify and construct a conflict
which does not exist, the head of the government's public relations
office, Sanja Kos, relayed Racan's statement to reporters.
The government stresses that the process of settling the Bobetko
case implies different opinions, which does not make it a
conflict.
The ultimate objective is that the government solve this as a
harmonised team, which it is doing, Kos said.
Speculation about the Racan-Granic conflict appeared in some media
which reported that it was not coincidental that the president of
the government's council for cooperation with the international
war crimes tribunal decided to travel to Egypt during the visit of
the tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, to Zagreb.
On Tuesday's news conference, Premier Racan explained that this
indeed was a coincidence, since the date for the energy congress in
Cairo, to which Granic travelled, had been arranged much earlier,
prior to the setting of a date for the chief prosecutor's visit to
Zagreb.
(hina) lml