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Zagreb, March 11 (CP) – Attorney Ante Nobilo, a former ICTY lawyer for Tihomir Blaskic claims that no one in their right mind would deny that war crimes were committed during the war in Croatia and someone needs to be made responsible for them.
Nobilo said this commenting the course of the proceedings at the ICTY […]

Zagreb, March 11 (CP) — At the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague today, trial procedures begin in the case against Croatian generals Gotovina, Markac and Cermak.
The prosecution has announced that it intends to call 134 witnesses, while an unusual 209 working hours has been approved for their questioning.
The general’s attornies […]

Zagreb, March 10 (CP) – Just a few days before the start of the long-awaited trial of generals Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac, the Croatian government has decided to forward to The Hague Tribunal (ICTY) Interior Ministry documents dating from the time of the Storm operation.
The chief prosecutor in the Storm case, Alan […]

Zagreb, March 10 (CP) – Croatia has announced on Monday it was refraining from implementing the Protected Ecology and Fisheries Belt (ZERP) against EU countries. The news was announced by the president of the National Committee for Monitoring EU Negotiations Vesna Pusic.
This basically means that ZERP has been returned to what it was two months […]

Zagreb, March 10 (CP) — The pre-trial conference in the case of Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac ended some half an hour after in began at the ICTY in The Hague on Monday morning.
It was established that the prosecution has the right to present 134 witnesses and put forth its evidence during 210.5 […]

Zagreb, March 9 (CP) – The former Croatian Foreign Minister Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic may become Croatia’s Ambassador to United States, according to unofficial report by state-run Croatian Radio Television (HRT).
The unofficial report states that Grabar Kitarovic has been accepted by the US government and Kitarovic could head to the US by the end of March.
So […]

Zagreb, March 8 (CP) – The deputy president of the Croatian Serb SDSS party, Milorad Pupovac has warned that the SDSS may leave the coalition government if Croatia recognizes Kosovo too soon.
Pupovac did say, however, that there was no danger of this happening at this point.
He reiterated the views of the Independent Serbian Democratic Party […]

Zagreb, March 8 (CP) – Croatia’s assistant Foreign Minister Neven Pelicaric has spoken to Swedish Ambassador to Zagreb, Lars Freden expressing concern over the statement of his colleague in Belgrade Krister Bringeus made on Thursday that Croatia and Serbia would joint the EU together between 2012 and 2015 and demanding an official position on this.
Ambassador […]

Zagreb, March 7 (CP) – After holding an emergency meeting with coalition partners, HSLS and HSS, PM Ivo Sanader said that the coalition had not dissolved over the issue of the Protected Ecology and Fisheries Belt (ZERP) or the EU and stressed that it needed to be seen what was more important if Croatia cannot […]

Zagreb, March 7 (CP) – Croatian PM Ivo Sanader has stated that Croatia would decide on officially recognizing Kosovo during March.
However, Sanader declined to speculate on any specific recognition date.
This comes following the call made by Serbian president Boris Tadic on Thursday for Croatia not to recognize Kosovo, as it may result in ’serious political […]