CROATIA IS DISSATISFIED WITH WORK OF INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

ZAGREB, Feb 12 (Hina) - By accepting the constitutional draft law on cooperation between Croatia and the International Criminal Tribunal, the Croatian Government had fulfilled its duty as a United Nations member country, Croatian Vice Premier Ljerka Mintas- Hodak said in Zagreb on Monday. By proposing the draft law, the Croatian Government showed it was ready to continue its contribution to more effective cooperation with the Tribunal, Mintas-Hodak told reporters. #L# The Croatian Government, however, was not satisfied with the work of the International Tribunal, especially with its lack of effectiveness in discovering war crimes and indicting war criminals in former Yugoslavia, Hodak said. "We are also dissatisfied with the lack of equity in discovering war crimes which had been committed at the beginning of war and those committed recently," Hodak said. "The Croatian Government insists that all persons suspected of war crimes are discovered and indicted. The Serb forces have committed a much larger number of war crimes than any other side," Hodak said. Answering reporters' questions about the Zagreb Mayor, Mintas- Hodak said that the Government had avoided politicizing the case by not making public its proposal on the confirmation of the new Mayor. The Croatian Government had confirmed the election of Jozo Rados (the Croatian Social Liberal Party, HSLS) to the post of Zagreb Mayor and proposed to President Tudjman to confirm Rados' election. The Croatian public had learnt about the proposal indirectly, through a statement given by Vice Premier Borislav Skegro to the BBC during his visit to Great Britain. "The Croatian Government is not obliged to make its decision public. It sent its proposal to President Tudjman and his decision will be published within a legal time-limit," Mintas-Hodak said. (hina) lm jn 121532 MET feb 96