SEKS MOTIONS PARLIAMENT DISCUSSION ON COOPERATION WITH THE HAGUE

ZAGREB, March 4 (Hina) - President of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) parliament party bench, Vladimir Seks, on Saturday forwarded a motion to the Parliament president for an urgent Lower House discussion on Croatia's cooperation with the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The "shocking, deeply concerning, unjustified and unjust sentence read by The Hague Tribunal to General Tihomir Blaskic which asserts that an international conflict had taken place in Bosnia- Herzegovina, and involves Croatia as an aggressor in another state, seeks urgent discussion on the forms of Croatia's cooperation with the Tribunal," Seks said in his letter. An urgent discussion must also take place regarding contradictory statements by the new Government officials concerning the Croatian military and police operations "Storm" and "Flash", which opens up the question of national security and criminalisation of the Homeland War, despite decisions made by the Croatian National Parliament and Government that the "Flash" and "Storm" operations did not fall under the Tribunal's jurisdiction, Seks said. The ICTY on Friday sentenced Tihomir Blaskic, former commander of the Central Bosnia Operative Zone, to 45 years in prison for crimes against humanity, violations of the laws or customs of war, and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions during the Croat-Moslem war in Central Bosnia between May 1992 and January 1994. (hina) lml