INTERIOR MINISTRY NOTIFIED ABOUT DECREE ON NADA SAKIC'S EXTRADITION

( Editorial: --> 5763 ) ZAGREB, Aug 25 (Hina) - The Croatian Ministry of Justice on Tuesday confirmed that it had been notified by the Croatian Embassy in Buenos Aires on August 23 that the Argentinean President had signed a decree on the extradition of Nada Sakic. The Croatian press today reported that the decree gave Croatia precedence as extradition country. This means there is no longer a possibility that Nada Sakic may be extradited to Yugoslavia, which also requested her extradition. According to Sakic's attorney Branko Seric, the Zagreb County Court has not yet notified him that the Argentinean President signed an extradition decree. "Yesterday afternoon I (...) spoke to Nada Sakic on the phone and she had not been notified about that either", said Seric this morning. Nada Sakic, currently under house arrest in her Argentinean residence in Santa Teresita, is accused by the Zagreb County Court investigating judge of war crimes against civilians. The wife of recently extradited Dinko Sakic, who is currently being tried in Zagreb for war crimes committed as commander of a concentration camp in World War II Croatia, Nada Sakic is suspected of committing war crimes as an official in another WW2 concentration camp in Croatia. (hina) ha 251143 MET aug 98