ZAGREB, July 14 (Hina) - The Democratic Centre (DC) will not support the government, and tomorrow's vote on confidence in the government aims at saving the ruling coalition, in which the DC does not want to take part, DC vice
president Vesna Skare-Ozbolt told a news conference on Saturday. The government's policy towards the Hague tribunal presented Croatia with an accomplished fact, because it failed to determine a strategy and negotiating position in relation to the Hague tribunal, said Skare-Ozbolt, adding it was obvious "the Hague indictments are unacceptable for Croatia." DC officials claim "the government does not rule and does not have a strategy how to break a crisis." "The division in Croatia is the strongest since the Homeland Defence War," DC president Mate Ganic assessed, stressing the party believed Croatia must responsibly cooperate with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslav
ZAGREB, July 14 (Hina) - The Democratic Centre (DC) will not support
the government, and tomorrow's vote on confidence in the government
aims at saving the ruling coalition, in which the DC does not want to
take part, DC vice president Vesna Skare-Ozbolt told a news
conference on Saturday.
The government's policy towards the Hague tribunal presented
Croatia with an accomplished fact, because it failed to determine a
strategy and negotiating position in relation to the Hague
tribunal, said Skare-Ozbolt, adding it was obvious "the Hague
indictments are unacceptable for Croatia."
DC officials claim "the government does not rule and does not have a
strategy how to break a crisis."
"The division in Croatia is the strongest since the Homeland
Defence War," DC president Mate Ganic assessed, stressing the party
believed Croatia must responsibly cooperate with the International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The government
needs to inform the MPs of the indictments and the context of the
letter Prime Minister Ivica Racan had forwarded to the Hague
Tribunal, said Granic.
"We want to hear the entire truth and how the government intends to
defend itself from accusations, because these indictments are not
against an individual but against the Croatian state," said Granic
adding Croatia was accused of genocide and ethnic cleansing in
legal and legitimate military police operations.
In his opinion, a government session held yesterday behind closed
doors should have made more room for the government to decide upon
the standpoint how to defend itself from the Hague indictments. A
possibility of amending the ICTY Statute, in line with which
indictments could not be based on an expanded objective
responsibility, is very small and changing the constitutional law
on cooperation with the ICTY would most probably be interpreted as
avoiding the assumed obligations, Granic assessed. At the same
time, sanctions could be imposed against Croatia, and the World
Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the United States would
take certain measures as well, Granic said.
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