NEW YORK, March 21 (Hina) - The United Nations on Tuesday said it was pleased to hear the news about Mladen Naletilic Tuta's extradition to the Hague-based International War Crimes Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). A spokesman
for the UN Secretary-General, Fred Eckhard, confirmed on Tuesday in New York that Bosnian Croat Naletilic had been transferred from a Zagreb prison hospital to the detention centre of the Hague-based Tribunal. Eckhard reiterated that Naletilic's handover from Croatia had previously been postponed due to his serious health condition. Last month, however, Dutch doctors, hired by the ICTY, checked Tuta's health and assessed that he could fly from Zagreb to The Hague provided that there is adequate medical control and conditions in the plane during his transfer. Naletilic has been indicted along with Vinko Martinovic Stela for crimes against humanity, grieve breeches of the Geneva
NEW YORK, March 21 (Hina) - The United Nations on Tuesday said it was
pleased to hear the news about Mladen Naletilic Tuta's extradition
to the Hague-based International War Crimes Tribunal for Former
Yugoslavia (ICTY).
A spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, Fred Eckhard, confirmed
on Tuesday in New York that Bosnian Croat Naletilic had been
transferred from a Zagreb prison hospital to the detention centre
of the Hague-based Tribunal.
Eckhard reiterated that Naletilic's handover from Croatia had
previously been postponed due to his serious health condition. Last
month, however, Dutch doctors, hired by the ICTY, checked Tuta's
health and assessed that he could fly from Zagreb to The Hague
provided that there is adequate medical control and conditions in
the plane during his transfer.
Naletilic has been indicted along with Vinko Martinovic Stela for
crimes against humanity, grieve breeches of the Geneva conventions
and violations of laws and customs of war in the Mostar area in 1993.
Martinovic was apprehended in Croatia on February 26, 1997 and was
transferred to the ICTY detention on August 9, 1999.
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