CROATIAN AMBASSADOR EXPECTS SAKIC WILL BE EXTRADITED SOON

( Editorial: --> 0912 ) BUENOS AIRES, May 1 (Hina) - Croatia's Ambassador to Argentina Friday said she believed World War Two Jasenovac concentration camp commander Dinko Sakic will be extradited to Croatia in short time. Argentinean police arrested Sakic, 76, in Santa Teresita, 320km south-east of Buenos Aires, Thursday evening, following a request for his extradition Croatia forwarded to Argentina last Monday. According to a statement Ambassador Neda Rosandic-Saric issued in Buenos Aires today, the Croatian Embassy is constantly in touch with the court in Dolores, which is in charge of the Sakic case. The reports the Croatian Embassy received show that the proceedings are very prompt, the ambassador's statement said. It is certain Sakic will be extradited to Croatia in a very short time, she emphasised. After Sakic's arrest, Argentinean Interior Minister Carlos Corach said Sakic might be extradited to Croatia in a short time if he (Sakic) assented to it. In the contrary, Corach said, all will depend on the legal obstacles of Sakic's lawyers. Federal judge Hernan Bernasconi, who issued the arrest warrant, refused to issue details surrounding last evening's arrest. According to Associated Press, Sakic did not resist arrest, only grinned sneeringly. He was recently proclaimed persona non grata by the municipality of Dolores. (hina) ha 011801 MET may 98