ZAGREB, Sept 29 (Hina) - Commenting on Friday's decision by the president of the republic to retire seven active army generals, army chief-of-staff General Petar Stipetic said he supported the president's decision and that it would be
carried out.
ZAGREB, Sept 29 (Hina) - Commenting on Friday's decision by the
president of the republic to retire seven active army generals,
army chief-of-staff General Petar Stipetic said he supported the
president's decision and that it would be carried out.#L#
He said the army respected its supreme commander, the prime
minister, and parliament speaker, and that there was nothing
sensational nor any other problem about it.
President Stipe Mesic today decided to retire seven active army
generals who were among the 12 signatories of yesterday's open
letter in which they called on state institutions and the media to
oppose the negative and false presentation of the Homeland Defence
War, Croatia's early 1990s war of independence from the former
Yugoslav federation.
Asked if the president had consulted the military leadership in
making the decision, Stipetic answered in the negative. He also
said that none of the generals had been interviewed yesterday.
Commenting on Mesic's decision, Prime Minister Ivica Racan said,
"This form of political activity on the part of active officers is
neither acceptable nor permissible in any democratic state, not
even in democratic Croatia."
"The president of the republic has taken a decision and I respect
it," Racan said. Asked if Mesic should have consulted the military
leadership, he said, "I am not the president's adviser."
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