MostarMOSTAR, June 8 (Hina) - The Interior Ministry of Herzegovina-NeretvaCanton has no information on any fugitive of the Hague war crimestribunal hiding in the area of the southern Bosnia-Herzegovina canton,ministry spokesman Srecko
Bosnjak said commenting on the latest issueof Zagreb-based weekly "Globus" which carried the statement by Haguetribunal chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte that runaway Croatiangeneral Ante Gotovina has been hiding in Mostar.
MOSTAR, June 8 (Hina) - The Interior Ministry of
Herzegovina-Neretva Canton has no information on any fugitive of the Hague war
crimes tribunal hiding in the area of the southern Bosnia-Herzegovina canton,
ministry spokesman Srecko Bosnjak said commenting on the latest issue of
Zagreb-based weekly "Globus" which carried the statement by Hague tribunal
chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte that runaway Croatian general Ante Gotovina
has been hiding in Mostar. Other law enforcement agencies with which
the Ministry has been in contact have no information on Gotovina hiding in the
area of Mostar either, Bosnjak said.
"If we had such information, there would be no reason not to meet our
legal obligations," Bosnjak said, alluding to the legal obligation to arrest
Hague tribunal indictees, including Gotovina.
The chief prosecutor of the UN war crimes tribunal has claimed on
several occasions that General Gotovina has been hiding in the majority Croat
areas of neighbouring Bosnia-Herzegovina. In the statement carried by Globus
weekly, Del Ponte for the first time mentioned the name of a town, Mostar,
where she said Gotovina was hiding.