"I stand by my statement on Karadjordjevo. (...) The key issue is President Tudjman's role in dividing Bosnia-Herzegovina. He told us after that meeting that they (Tudjman and Milosevic) had agreed in principle that consultations would be held on how the territories of Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina would be divided," Manolic said in answer to additional questions put by Prosecutor Kenneth Scott regarding the Tudjman-Milosevic meeting.
Manolic said that immediately after the Karadjordjevo meeting Tudjman and Milosevic set up expert commissions to prepare documents for the implementation of the agreement reached. The Croatian commission was headed by Dusan Bilandzic, a historian and member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Vesna Alaburic, who represents the accused general Milivoj Petkovic, previously drew attention to a number of inconsistencies in Manolic's testimony.
Citing statements Manolic had made in 1993, Alaburic and other defence lawyers said that the witness did not oppose the existence of the Croat Republic of Herceg-Bosna, a self-proclaimed Croat statelet within Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Zagreb's policies towards Bosnia-Herzegovina at the time.
During the additional cross-examination, Manolic said that he had not seen the agreement reached in the Austrian city of Graz in May 1992 by Bosnian Croat leader Mate Boban and his Bosnian Serb counterpart Radovan Karadzic, but that it resulted in the cessation of armed clashes between Croats and Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Michael Carnavas, defence counsel for the accused Jadranko Prlic, said with anger in his voice that the witness was testifying for private reasons in order to smear Tudjman and all the others.