ZAGREB, April 6 (Hina) - The Dutch parliament will decide on the resumption of the process of the ratification of the EU-Croatian Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) after the Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal (ICTY)
assesses Croatia's cooperation with that court, a source form the Dutch Embassy in Zagreb said on Tuesday.
ZAGREB, April 6 (Hina) - The Dutch parliament will decide on the
resumption of the process of the ratification of the EU-Croatian
Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) after the Hague-based UN
war crimes tribunal (ICTY) assesses Croatia's cooperation with that
court, a source form the Dutch Embassy in Zagreb said on Tuesday.#L#
We are waiting for the tribunal to give an answer, Deputy Ambassador
Klarien Beek told Hina after he was asked whether the process of SAA
ratification would be stepped up following the transfer of Croatian
generals and several high-profile Bosnian Croat war-time military and
political officials to The Hague.
We expect Croatia to fully cooperate with the Hague tribunal, and it
is up to the latter to decide whether the cooperation is full, Beek
said.
Great Britain, which has not ratified the SAA either, on Tuesday
welcomed the voluntary surrender of the six Bosnian Croats to the UN
tribunal and the role the Croatian government played in making it
possible.
"We hope that (indicted retired Croatian general) Ante Gotovina will
follow their example and we look to the Croatian government to do
everything in its power to ensure that he appears before the Hague
tribunal as soon as possible," said the statement issued by the
British Embassy in Zagreb.
Three of the 15 EU member-states have not yet completed the
ratification process. The Netherlands and Great Britain have not done
it because of the case of fugitive general Gotovina, while Italy,
according to an official explanation, has not yet put the issue to the
vote in parliament.
(Hina) ms