CONCLUSIONS ADOPTED BY PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE

ZAGREB, July 29 (Hina) - At its session of 29 July 1997, after a discussion in which Croatian parliamentary deputies and parliamentary parties' leaders participated, the Croatian Parliament House of Representatives foreign affairs committee adopted following conclusions: 1. The foreign affairs committee assesses that the Republic of Croatia in comparison with all other states covered by competence of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), has showed in its activities so far undoubtedly the highest degree of cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal, confirming in this way its abidance by highest political and legal achievements of the international community. 2. In the context of such cooperation between the International Criminal Tribunal and the Republic of Croatia, the foreign affairs committee regrets to state that at the case of General Blaskic, the International + Criminal Tribunal again issued subpoena duces tecum on 18 July 1997 to the Republic of Croatia and its official demanding from them to submit a great number of documents which have not been specified and which mostly have not referred to Croatia, and, furthermore, encroach on the issue of the national security. In this way, the International Criminal Tribunal has tensed overall relations with Croatia. In connection with this, the foreign affairs committee firmly supports already presented international and legal arguments of the Croatian Governments about impremissibility and unacceptability of such communication between the International Criminal Tribunal and sovereign states and their officials, especially as the Tribunal itself has admitted that+ it is a precedent in international practice. 3. The foreign affairs committee agrees completely with the intention of the Croatian Government to use all legal expedients, in connection with the subpoena issued by the International Criminal Tribunal, in order to show that the decision is legally groundless. 4. Regarding Croatia's Constitutional Law on cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal and relevant rules of international law, the foreign affairs committee expresses its support to the Croatian Government in cooperating further with the International Criminal Tribunal while taking into consideration Croatia's national interests. 5. With regard to the importance of the issue for the security of the State as well as for the international position of the Republic of Croatia, the foreign affairs committee supports stands of the Croatian Government, expressed in a statement of 21 July, and proposes that this aspect of relations between Croatia and the International Criminal Tribunal be considered at one of first Parliament's sessions in autumn and that the international community be notified, in most suitable manner, of the adopted stance of the Croatian Parliament. (hina) mm mš 291806 MET jul 97