ZAGREB, July 16 (Hina) - United Europe will have no future if it allows the use of double standards and Croatia must not allow the Hague tribunal to make unacceptable assessments about the character of the Homeland War, said Ivo
Sanader (Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ) during Monday's parliamentary debate about cooperation with the Hague tribunal. He reiterated that Croatia, as one of the countries to have initiated the establishment of the tribunal, has the right to warn against the exceeding of powers as defined by the Hague tribunal's Statute and seek protection before international organisations from unacceptable political assessments contained in the Hague indictments. No country would agree to submit to an international institution documents which are important for its national security, as is the case with documents on Croatia's military-police operations 'Flash' and 'Storm', Sanader said. The HDZ also
ZAGREB, July 16 (Hina) - United Europe will have no future if it
allows the use of double standards and Croatia must not allow the
Hague tribunal to make unacceptable assessments about the
character of the Homeland War, said Ivo Sanader (Croatian
Democratic Union, HDZ) during Monday's parliamentary debate about
cooperation with the Hague tribunal.
He reiterated that Croatia, as one of the countries to have
initiated the establishment of the tribunal, has the right to warn
against the exceeding of powers as defined by the Hague tribunal's
Statute and seek protection before international organisations
from unacceptable political assessments contained in the Hague
indictments.
No country would agree to submit to an international institution
documents which are important for its national security, as is the
case with documents on Croatia's military-police operations
'Flash' and 'Storm', Sanader said.
The HDZ also moved its conclusions to the debate on cooperation with
the Hague tribunal but as the Committees on the Constitution, Rule
Book and Political System and Legislation this morning proposed
that HDZ's conclusions be refused as unconstitutional, a mixed
party working group was set up with the aim of making new draft
conclusions.
The HDZ wants a compromise to be reached as regards cooperation with
the Hague and believes that new conclusions should be in accordance
with the stand the Croatian government took last December, which,
among else, includes the possibility of changing the
Constitutional Law on Cooperation with the Hague tribunal as well
as the tribunal's statute itself, with the aim of preventing the
tribunal to issue indictments based on objective commanding
responsibility, Sanader said.
The HDZ also suggested in its conclusions that changes be made to
the Constitutional Law on Cooperation with the Hague tribunal and
that the government, all bodies of state authority and state
officials be bound to promptly discontinue the implementation of a
recently adopted government decision to comply with two Hague
indictments.
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