ZAGREB, Oct 14 (Hina) - The UK government is reflecting on the report by the Hague war crimes tribunal's chief prosecutor to the EU Council of Ministers in which she criticises Croatia's cooperation with the U.N. tribunal, the British
Embassy in Zagreb said on Tuesday.
ZAGREB, Oct 14 (Hina) - The UK government is reflecting on the
report by the Hague war crimes tribunal's chief prosecutor to the EU
Council of Ministers in which she criticises Croatia's cooperation
with the U.N. tribunal, the British Embassy in Zagreb said on
Tuesday. #L#
The ministers are reflecting on Carla Del Ponte's report, embassy
spokeswoman Tessa Fras told Hina in reply to the question if, in the
wake of the report, Great Britain would keep the ratification of
Croatia's Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the
European Union frozen.
In the report she submitted in Luxembourg yesterday, Del Ponte said
she was dissatisfied with Croatia's cooperation in the arrest of
fugitive General Ante Gotovina.
After the report, which has been assessed as harsher than the report
Del Ponte submitted to the United Nations Security Council a few
days earlier, Dutch Foreign Minister Jaap de Hop Scheffer told
reporters there were no reasons for the Netherlands to complete the
SAA ratification process in the wake of what he said was Del Ponte's
gloomy report on Croatia.
The UK and the Netherlands are the only EU nations which have frozen
the SAA ratification process owing to Zagreb's non-cooperation
with the Hague tribunal.
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