PRIME MINISTER: GOVT. WILL HAND OVER TO HAGUE ALL NEEDED DOCUMENTS

ZAGREB, April 2 (Hina) - Prime Minister Ivica Racan confirmed on Monday the government would put at the disposal of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague all relevant documents referring to specific war crimes committed on Croatian territory. Asked by the press about the delivery of documents relating to a recent interview military Chief-Of-Staff Petar Stipetic had with the tribunal's investigators, Racan said that "as part of the cooperation between Croatian authorities and the Hague tribunal's Prosecutor's Office, there is a meticulously arranged procedure which everyone participating in this cooperation will have to comply with." He confirmed Croatia was willing to send to The Hague documents relating to specific war crimes, not the Homeland Defence War as a whole. Commenting on Stipetic's interview, Racan said the government assessed the statement had been a good one, as it shed light on the character of the Homeland Defence War on the one hand, and on the other helped make the tribunal's Prosecutor's Office focus only on specific war crimes. "We, too, are interested in not making the unsolved (crimes) a liability to Croatia and the Croatian people," the prime minister said. (hina) ha sb