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.
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. #L#
"I believe that the assessment of the work so far 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 chairman of the government's council, said
he had, along with Justice Minister Stjepan Ivanisevic, informed
committee members of the overall relations between Croatia and the
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", committee chairwoman Djurdja Adlesic said.
She said that the majority of 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 cooperation with the ICTY, because at the session,
representatives of almost all parliamentary parties had the
opportunity to receive answers for anything which interested
them.
Council members were also briefed about recent apprehensions by the
defence and interior ministers.
Adlesic said the committee had now received an entire report,
confirming that the actions had been carried out through the
cooperation of the two ministries.
"(Interior) Minister Lucin told us there had been no spectacular
scenes, that only one person had been arrested, wile the others
responded to warrants," she said.
Lucin told reporters he had today only completed the report on the
Ministry's activities which he had submitted to the committee at
the last session.
"Added were some ongoing investigations and the police part of the
work in the segment," he stressed.
At the insistence of reporters, Lucin said the investigation into
the murder of Milan Levar in Gospic was in the investigation phase.
"I hope I will be able to give you more concrete information in the
following several days," Lucin added.
Asked whether there would be any new arrests made soon, Lucin
asserted "there will be arrests as long as there are criminals".
Adlesic told reporters that committee members had at today's
session asked the Defence Minister about the participation of army
officers and non-commissioned officers in centres for the defence
of the dignity of the Homeland War.
The centres were established by the many local Homeland War
soldiers' organisations following arrests in Gospic, and issue
daily statements with requests for the cessation of arrests of
soldiers, and accusations against the government of soiling the
Homeland war.
Adlesic asserted the Minister had, during talks with the Croatian
Armed Forces Chief-of-Staff, made certain conclusions and
measures, but she refused to specify which.
"The issue is about active military personnel who are on sick-leave
of several years, so legally, they cannot be suspended," committee
deputy chairman, Ivan Ninic, said.
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