ZAGREB, Aug 20 (Hina) - There is no indictment against Croatian President Franjo Tudjman at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, the Tribunal's deputy chief prosecutor, Graham Blewit, told
Croatia's Ambassador to The Netherlands, Jaksa Muljacic, on Friday.
ZAGREB, Aug 20 (Hina) - There is no indictment against Croatian
President Franjo Tudjman at the International Criminal Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, the Tribunal's
deputy chief prosecutor, Graham Blewit, told Croatia's Ambassador
to The Netherlands, Jaksa Muljacic, on Friday. #L#
Muljacic met Blewit at a request of the Croatian Foreign Ministry,
which via the Croatian Embassy in The Hague asked for explanations
by the Tribunal's Prosecutor's Office with regard to allegations
made in Sarajevo-based weekly "Dani".
In its issue of Friday, the weekly claims "the ICTY Prosecutor's
Office has prepared an indictment against Croatian President
Franjo Tudjman (...) filed under IT-99-35."
According to a Croatian Foreign Ministry statement, Blewit told the
Croatian ambassador he can confirm there is no indictment against
President Tudjman at The Hague Tribunal, and refuted the
allegations made in "Dani".
The Croatian Foreign Ministry expressed its puzzlement at the fact
that the Bosnian weekly had published such serious, unfounded
imputations which, the ministry statement said, do not correspond
to the truth and actual facts.
We regret to conclude that this is another attempt at exerting media
and political pressure on Croatia, the statement said, pointing out
it was completely contrary to Croatia's firm commitment to build
good neighbourly relations with Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The Croatian Foreign Ministry strongly rejects this and all
similarly unfounded media statements on alleged accusations
against the Croatian President, and reiterates its firm commitment
to constructive cooperation with The Hague Tribunal, the statement
concluded.
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