ZAGREB, Nov 2 (Hina) - Spokeswoman for the Office of the Croatian President Vjera Suman told Hina Thursday that reporters of Britain's Channel 4 had indeed visited the Presidential office, but had not listened to any tapes or received
any transcripts.
ZAGREB, Nov 2 (Hina) - Spokeswoman for the Office of the Croatian
President Vjera Suman told Hina Thursday that reporters of
Britain's Channel 4 had indeed visited the Presidential office, but
had not listened to any tapes or received any transcripts. #L#
Channel 4 reporters visited President Stipe Mesic's office on
September 13, and interviewed him, while photographing the Office
in which tapes had been recorded during meetings.
"They neither listened to tapes nor did they receive any
transcripts," Suman said in comment of Thursday's articles in daily
newspapers according to which Britain's paper "Independent"
published that President Mesic had made it possible for Channel 4
reporters to get insight into 100 tapes and 17,000 transcripts
during the mandate of the former and deceased Croatian President
Franjo Tudjman.
Reacting to a statement issued by the Association for the
Protection of the Homeland Defence War saying that "Independent"
had claimed that President Mesic had submitted copies transcripts
of Tudjman's conversations, Suman said the Government and its
Office for cooperation with the international war crimes tribunal
in The Hague was in charge of relations between Croatia and the
Hague tribunal.
"President Mesic cannot hand in anything to the Hague tribunal
personally, nor had he done so," Suman said.
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