CRO GOVT RECEIVES SUPPORT OF PARL. COMMITTEE FOR COOPERATION WITH ICTY

ZAGREB, Sept 25 (Hina) - The Croatian government on Monday received the support of the parliament's committee for interior policy and national security for its way of cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Croatian government and parliament senior officials said after today's session of the committee. "I believe that the assessment of the so far work was good and that the council (for cooperation with the ICTY), namely the government, received full support of the committee", Croatian First Deputy Prime Minister Goran Granic told reporters. Granic, who is also the president of the government's council, said he had, along with Justice Minister Stjepan Ivanisevic, informed members of the committee of the overall relations between Croatia and The Hague Tribunal. "Members of the committee expressed satisfaction about the way the council and the government were operating - in line with the law and other documents", president of the committee Djurdja Adlesic said. She said that the majority of the commendation for cooperation with the ICTY came from the opposition Croatian Democratic Union, namely Ivic Pasalic. Adlesic told reporters she believed there was no need for a special discussion on the cooperation with the ICTY, because at the session, representatives of almost all parliamentary parties had an opportunity to receive answers for everything they were interested in. (hina) it