COOPERATION WITH HAGUE TRIBUNAL WON'T BE SEVERED - SAYS TOMCIC

JELSA/ZAGREB, Aug 14 (Hina) - Croatian parliament speaker Zlatko Tomcic said on Monday recent newspaper articles in connection with Croatian army Chief-Of-Staff General Petar Stipetic were the result of a lack of real news over the summer period, Croatian Television reported in tonight's central evening news. Recent press reports alleged the existence of a Hague war crimes indictment against Stipetic. "There are too many people who in an uncontrolled, perhaps ill- intentioned manner, are attempting to feed this people, who at this moment needs peace, information we may call half-information or misinformation," said Tomcic. According to the parliament speaker, these days we have mostly been reading about whether Croatian generals will be put on trial, whether Croatia will continue or sever its cooperation with the war crimes tribunal in The Hague. "The cooperation will not be severed. Croatia's government, and the entire Croatian people I believe, has definitely decided that all those who individually committed crimes must also respond individually. This is why I want to tell everybody that only if The Hague tribunal changes its position towards Croatia, only if The Hague tribunal begins to fail to comply with regulations of the agreements Croatia has signed, only in that case will I convene an extraordinary parliament session," Tomcic said. (hina) ha