ZAGREB, Dec 12 (Hina) - President Stipe Mesic said on Tuesday Croatia would carry out every decision the government made in connection with military chief-of-staff Petar Stipetic's testimony before UN's war crimes tribunal in The
Hague. The President's Office and the government agree about that, he said. "Cooperation with the Hague tribunal goes through the Croatian Government's Office and everything the government agrees on we will carry out," Mesic said when asked if he would exempt General Stipetic from the obligation to maintain a state secret in order to be able to testify before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Mesic confirmed his office and the government were in consensus on the matter. He talked to the press at Zagreb's Pleso airport prior to departure for Palermo, Italy, where he is to attend a United Nations conference on combating organised cr
ZAGREB, Dec 12 (Hina) - President Stipe Mesic said on Tuesday
Croatia would carry out every decision the government made in
connection with military chief-of-staff Petar Stipetic's
testimony before UN's war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
The President's Office and the government agree about that, he
said.
"Cooperation with the Hague tribunal goes through the Croatian
Government's Office and everything the government agrees on we will
carry out," Mesic said when asked if he would exempt General
Stipetic from the obligation to maintain a state secret in order to
be able to testify before the International Criminal Tribunal for
the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Mesic confirmed his office and the government were in consensus on
the matter.
He talked to the press at Zagreb's Pleso airport prior to departure
for Palermo, Italy, where he is to attend a United Nations
conference on combating organised crime.
On Monday, Prime Minister Ivica Racan said the government would be
the one to decide if the military chief-of-staff would respond to
the Hague tribunal's summons "for talks."
Asked if the law on cooperation with the tribunal should be changed,
President Mesic said: "I haven't thought about it. I don't think it
should be changed. This law has a framework wide enough for
cooperation."
Asked if he thought ICTY was fair to Croatia, Mesic said: "Nobody
from Croatia has been tried before the tribunal in The Hague yet."
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