TRANSNATIONAL RADICAL PARTY: MILOSEVIC MUST BE TRIED IN THE HAGUE

ZAGREB, Dec 29 (Hina) - The Transnational Radical Party on Tuesday called on Croatian citizens to join in the world public's request to put on trial Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic before The Hague tribunal. The party holds President Milosevic responsible for war crimes committed in the region of the former Yugoslavia. The main problem of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia is that it has not dealt with the main perpetrators of crimes in the former Yugoslavia, the party's Secretary-General and a representative at the European Parliament, Oliver Dupuis, said in Zagreb. The petition called Stop Milosevic with your signature, has so far been signed by 130,000 MPs, respected politicians, cultural workers, university professors, and citizens across the world. The party also called on the Croatian Government to forward the statute of the permanent international tribunal to the Parliament for ratification, as soon as possible. The tribunal's constitutive conference was held in Rome in June, however it has not yet begun to operate. Dupuis called on the Croatian Prime Minister to forward a formal request for Croatia's entrance in the European Union. He believed it was about time, because the joining process can last up to ten years. (hina) it/lml