ZAGREB, Sept 28 (Hina) - Croatian President Stipe Mesic's Office issued a statement late Thursday afternoon reacting to an open letter 12 Croatian generals sent the public earlier today. The statement says the part of the letter
referring to responsible persons and institutions of the state, including the President of the Republic, is an inappropriate way of communicating with the supreme commander.
ZAGREB, Sept 28 (Hina) - Croatian President Stipe Mesic's Office
issued a statement late Thursday afternoon reacting to an open
letter 12 Croatian generals sent the public earlier today.
The statement says the part of the letter referring to responsible
persons and institutions of the state, including the President of
the Republic, is an inappropriate way of communicating with the
supreme commander.#L#
"The active generals had more appropriate possibilities to
communicate, but did not use them," says the statement signed by
Vjera Suman, the head of the information department at the
President's Office.
In the letter, the 12 generals, among else, called on the most
responsible persons and institutions of the state, the media in
particular, to oppose the negative and false presentation of
Croatia's early 1990s Homeland Defence War.
The statement from Mesic's Office says that all political activity
in the armed forces is prohibited by law. If active generals wish to
engage in politics, they should not do it as members of the Croatian
army, it adds.
The statement concludes by saying that members of the army knew of
an April 3 decision by the defence minister strictly prohibiting
all members of the defence ministry and the armed forces from making
statements in the media without previous permission from the
defence minister.
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