THE HAGUE, Oct 20 (Hina) - The Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is studying the documents on the health condition of Mladen Naletilic Tuta whose extradition to the Tribunal
has been postponed due to his deteriorating health, The Prosecution's spokesman, Paul Risley, said in The Hague on Wednesday. ICTY and Prosecution spokespersons confirmed that Croatian Ambassador to The Netherlands, Jaksa Muljacic, had on Tuesday submitted all documents pertaining to the extradition of Mladen Naletilic Tuta to the president, chief prosecutor and secretary of the tribunal. They were officially informed that all legal mechanisms stalling Naletilic's transferral have been exhausted, the ICTY spokesman Jim Landale said. The chief prosecutor hails Croatia's readiness to complete his extradition to The Hague for trial, Risley said. He explained that the Prosecution would decide,
THE HAGUE, Oct 20 (Hina) - The Prosecutor's Office of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
is studying the documents on the health condition of Mladen
Naletilic Tuta whose extradition to the Tribunal has been postponed
due to his deteriorating health, The Prosecution's spokesman, Paul
Risley, said in The Hague on Wednesday.
ICTY and Prosecution spokespersons confirmed that Croatian
Ambassador to The Netherlands, Jaksa Muljacic, had on Tuesday
submitted all documents pertaining to the extradition of Mladen
Naletilic Tuta to the president, chief prosecutor and secretary of
the tribunal.
They were officially informed that all legal mechanisms stalling
Naletilic's transferral have been exhausted, the ICTY spokesman
Jim Landale said.
The chief prosecutor hails Croatia's readiness to complete his
extradition to The Hague for trial, Risley said.
He explained that the Prosecution would decide, based on the
submitted documents, whether it would request the engaging of a
team of doctors to establish Naletilic's health condition.
The Croatian Supreme Court last week confirmed a decision by the
Zagreb County Court on the transferral of Naletilic to the Tribunal
to be tried based on an indictment in which he is charged with being
responsible for crimes committed in Mostar during the war in
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Justice Minister Zvonimir Separovic subsequently decided to
postpone the extradition due to the deterioration of the
defendant's health state.
At the end of last month Naletilic was transferred to Zagreb's
cardiac hospital from prison in Zagreb.
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