ZAGREB, Feb 2 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic assessed to cease cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) would be hazardous. Certain sanctions would definitively immediately
be imposed on Croatia, Granic said at Tuesday's session of the Croatian National Parliament's House of Counties. Following an extensive discussion, the Upper House adopted the report on Croatia's cooperation with the ICTY. All criticism and suggestions from the discussion will be forwarded to the House of Representatives to keep in mind while drafting a resolution on cooperation. Replying to a comment by an MP from the Liberal Party (LS) that the report cannot contain the concern based on rumour that Croatian generals could be processed by the Tribunal with regard to the Croatian military and police operation "Storm" in 1995, Granic said the rumours were based on strong fa
ZAGREB, Feb 2 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic
assessed to cease cooperation with the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) would be hazardous.
Certain sanctions would definitively immediately be imposed on
Croatia, Granic said at Tuesday's session of the Croatian National
Parliament's House of Counties.
Following an extensive discussion, the Upper House adopted the
report on Croatia's cooperation with the ICTY.
All criticism and suggestions from the discussion will be forwarded
to the House of Representatives to keep in mind while drafting a
resolution on cooperation.
Replying to a comment by an MP from the Liberal Party (LS) that the
report cannot contain the concern based on rumour that Croatian
generals could be processed by the Tribunal with regard to the
Croatian military and police operation "Storm" in 1995, Granic said
the rumours were based on strong factual information.
He stressed the Tribunal held "Storm" belonged in the court, while
the Croatian side does not accept this.
Granic pointed out that the failure to process crimes committed
after "Storm" had brought on Croatia great damage.
The afternoon discussion at the Upper House reiterated criticisms
on the work of the ICTY expressed during the morning. MPs are
dissatisfied with the intensity of investigations of crimes
committed during the aggression on Croatia, with the not issuing of
indictments with regard to cases of war crimes committed against
Croats in the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, with the slowness
of trials at the ICTY.
Why is the opportunity to initiate investigative proceedings
against representatives of the international community who did
nothing to prevent war crimes not being used, MP of the Croatian
Party of Rights, Miroslav Rozic, asked.
He recalled the presence of Cyrus Vance in Vukovar at the time when
the wounded were taken from Vukovar's hospital to a farm near the
town and killed.
He also recalled that representatives of the Dutch battalion had
been present in Srebrenica when the Bosnian Serb army occupied this
Moslem enclave, the then UN protected zone, and killed several
thousand civilians.
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