ATTORNEY APPLAUDS CONSTITUTIONAL COURT'S ASSESSMENT

ZAGREB, Nov 12 (Hina) - The Croatian government's legal representative in the dispute with the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague in the Bobetko case, Goran Mikulicic, on Tuesday voiced satisfaction with the Constitutional Court's position regarding certain constitutional and legal aspects of the Croatian army's liberation operations during the Homeland War, and with the fact that the position had been taken unanimously. #L# Mikulicic told Hina over the telephone after a session of the government's council for cooperation with the Hague tribunal the Constitutional Court had established that the liberation operations had been in line with the Constitution. The Court also established that it is not within its jurisdiction to assess the compliance or contradiction of UN general acts with the Croatian Constitution, or decide against individual decisions by UN bodies, Mikulicic said. He added the Constitutional Court had also established that an indictment could be debated and evaluated only before the tribunal which had issued it. Mikulicic stated it was important that the Constitutional Court had made a good analysis of facts from the legal and political points of view. (hina) ha sb