ZAGREB, Feb 14 (Hina) - Asked by reporters how it was possible that retired General Mirko Norac could request report to the Supreme Commander (President Stjepan Mesic), the Croatian Armed Forces' Chief-of-Staff, General Petar
Stipetic, on Wednesday said "the retirement does not mean anything particular and General Mirko Norac was retired and thus transferred in the Reserves." Mriko Norac was not stripped of his rank of general and which the rank entails. "Mirko has presumably thought that he should report to the Supreme Commander and talk with him as well as take action in accordance with his conscience," Stipetic said. "I guess it is so and perhaps I am wrong," the chief-of-staff told reporters who gathered in the Office of the President of the Republic. He said he did not know how the contact with Norac had been established and added that knowing General Norac he expected that he would probabl
ZAGREB, Feb 14 (Hina) - Asked by reporters how it was possible that
retired General Mirko Norac could request report to the Supreme
Commander (President Stjepan Mesic), the Croatian Armed Forces'
Chief-of-Staff, General Petar Stipetic, on Wednesday said "the
retirement does not mean anything particular and General Mirko
Norac was retired and thus transferred in the Reserves."
Mriko Norac was not stripped of his rank of general and which the
rank entails.
"Mirko has presumably thought that he should report to the Supreme
Commander and talk with him as well as take action in accordance
with his conscience," Stipetic said.
"I guess it is so and perhaps I am wrong," the chief-of-staff told
reporters who gathered in the Office of the President of the
Republic.
He said he did not know how the contact with Norac had been
established and added that knowing General Norac he expected that
he would probably report to Mesic today.
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