BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH

HR-SILVER-SWIMMER-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3337HINA Zagreb, July 27, 1999BLASKIC TRIAL: PROSECUTION SAYS 1993 CROAT-MUSLIM WAR WAS INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTTHE HAGUE, July 27 (Hina) - Andrew Cayley, a prosecution attorney in the trial of Tihomir Blaskic, on Tuesday said there was ample, convincing evidence about Croatian political aspirations and Croatia's military operation in neighbouring Bosnia-Herzegovina, which proved that the Croat-Muslim conflict in central Bosnia had had an international character. Cayley said Croatia had been carrying out its political ambitions and military intervention both directly and indirectly - through its 'agents' in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Presenting the closing argument, Cayley concentrated his efforts on proving that the Croat-Muslim conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina had been an international conflict, which is a precondition for proving the existence of violations of the Geneva Conventions and the law or cust