ZAGREB, Feb 11 (Hina) - Croatian Justice Minister Stjepan Ivanisevic said on Friday that in adopting a decision on the hand-over of Mladen Naletilic Tuta to The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Croatian authorities would not do anything which could jeopardise his condition. "We cannot do anything which could jeopardise his life," Ivanisevic told reporters when asked about the fate of the Hague indictee. It is obvious from the final opinion of Naletilic's doctors' team that he is not fit for transportation, Ivanisevic said. The doctors' team on Thursday issued a report saying Naletilic's hand-over could threaten his life since his transportation to The Hague and the trial could cause additional stress which could cause his sudden death or heart attack. Zvonimir Separovic, Croatia's former Justice Minister, last year postponed Naletilic's hand-over due to his deteriorated c
ZAGREB, Feb 11 (Hina) - Croatian Justice Minister Stjepan
Ivanisevic said on Friday that in adopting a decision on the hand-
over of Mladen Naletilic Tuta to The Hague-based International
Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Croatian
authorities would not do anything which could jeopardise his
condition.
"We cannot do anything which could jeopardise his life," Ivanisevic
told reporters when asked about the fate of the Hague indictee.
It is obvious from the final opinion of Naletilic's doctors' team
that he is not fit for transportation, Ivanisevic said.
The doctors' team on Thursday issued a report saying Naletilic's
hand-over could threaten his life since his transportation to The
Hague and the trial could cause additional stress which could cause
his sudden death or heart attack.
Zvonimir Separovic, Croatia's former Justice Minister, last year
postponed Naletilic's hand-over due to his deteriorated
condition.
The ICTY Prosecutor's Office on Thursday said it would consider the
mode of Naletilic's safe transportation once it received an
official report on his condition.
Paul Risley, spokesman for the Prosecutor's Office, yesterday said
the Office expected Naletilic to be handed-over to the Tribunal.
Ivanisevic told reporters today that the final report of the
doctors' team was sent to The Hague and that it was now up to the
Prosecution to decide about further steps as well as whether it
would send an independent team of doctors to Croatia to check
Naletilic's condition.
The ICTY issued an indictment against Naletilic in December 1998
charging him with war crimes committed in the Mostar area during the
1993 Croat-Muslim conflict.
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