ZAGREB, Oct 20 (Hina) - Croatian President Stipe Mesic on Friday reached a decision on appointments within the Croatian Armed Forces, including replacements for generals who had been retired late last month.
ZAGREB, Oct 20 (Hina) - Croatian President Stipe Mesic on Friday
reached a decision on appointments within the Croatian Armed
Forces, including replacements for generals who had been retired
late last month. #L#
Major General Josip Ignac has been appointed to the duty of defence
inspector general, formerly deputy defence inspector general.
Major General Josip Lucic has been appointed to the duty of deputy
Croatian Armed Forces chief-of-staff and removed from his former
duty as commander of the "Petar Zrinski" military academy. Major
General Darko Grdic was appointed to this post instead.
Colonel Miljenko Balen has been appointed commanding officer of the
Fifth Military District, Pazin, and relieved of his duty as deputy
commanding officer of the Fifth Military District.
Former defence inspector general, General Ante Gotovina, former
deputy chief-of-staff Major General Damir Krsticevic, and former
commander of the Fifth Military District Major General Milenko
Filipovic, were sent into retirement on September 29 for publicly
stating their political views in an open letter by Croatian
generals forwarded to the pubic and Croatian institutions.
They are three out of seven active generals President Mesic had
retired at the time.
Of the remaining four, Admiral Davorin Domazet was relieved of his
duty as Armed Forces chief-of-staff at the beginning of the year and
had not received a new post since; Major General Mirko Norac was
attending a war school when he was retired. Retired were also
Lieutenant General Kresimir Cosic, who was director of the
Institute for Defence Studies, and Major General Ivan Kapular, who
performed the duty of commanding officer of the Armed Forces
Training and Education Command.
The decisions on the appointments within the Armed Forces made by
President Mesic on Friday are in line with a motion forwarded by the
Defence Ministry, a Ministry spokesman, Dusan Viro, told Hina.
Asked why nobody had been appointed to the duty of commanding
officer of the Armed Forces Training and Education Command, Viro
said he believed the reason was that structural entities were in the
phase of reorganisation.
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