PRESIDENT MESIC ON NORAC CASE

ZAGREB, Feb 23 (Hina) - Croatia's judiciary must process suspicious cases and there will be no reason for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to intervene, Croatia's President Stjepan Mesic said on Friday. "I have not talked with the (ICTY chief) prosecutor (Carla del Ponte). I assert that the Croatian judiciary must process all suspicious cases and then there is no reason for the ICTY to intervene," Mesic said responding to reporters' questions after he had received U.S. Ambassador to Croatia, Lawrence Rossin. Retired general Mirko Norac, who turned himself in to the police late Wednesday, is now the case for the judiciary, and where ha was (for two weeks after he failed to appear before the court in early February), is best to ask him," Mesic told reporters. President Mesic added that he was certain that Premier Ivica Racan had not alluded to him while claiming that in the Norac case "some are gaining cheap political points." Mesic said his previous statements showed that Norac had not been in the hands of secret services, and thus most radical protesters "lost motives". Therefore, a protest rally in Zagreb was a complete failure, the president assessed. (hina) sb ms