Zagreb, 6 February: Gen Ante Gotovina has said that he hopes his case will be resolved soon, Croatian daily Vecernji list reports in tomorrow's issue. Gotovina made the statement after an interview ...by the Hague tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, where she urged him to appear in The Hague and said that he would be granted bail immediately.
Rijeka, 15 January: Croatian General Ante Gotovina, whom the Hague tribunal has been trying to put on trial for war crimes for the past two years, has been seen in Rome, but there is no official ...confirmation that he is in Italy.
Zagreb, 2 January: Attorneys representing retired General Ante Gotovina, who is wanted by the war crimes tribunal at The Hague, have applauded the Croatian government's decision to provide them with ...documentation already submitted to the UN tribunal, with Ivo Farcic saying the decision was a "very good sign" and Ante Vukorepa that it was "expected". The government said on Friday 2 January it would act on a recent ruling of the Zagreb Municipal Court and submit to the lawyers of Gotovina, who has been on the run since the Hague tribunal indicted him in June 2001, documents already in possession of the tribunal. "Our courts decide by rules valid here, and when the case arrives before the Hague tribunal, its rules will be applied," Farcic said, adding that only if rules valid in Croatia and those in use at The Hague collided would the Rules of Procedure and Evidence valid at The Hague be applied.
Proceedings in the case "Ante Gotovina vs the government" were repeated after the Zagreb County Court had pronounced a judgement against the government null and void, under which the government had ...to provide Gotovina's defence counsel with all the documents it had sent to the Hague tribunal, which charged Gotovina with war crimes. The initial lawsuit was declared invalid because it did not specify the documents being sought. After revising the suit, Gotovina's lawyers now request the 77 documents that were dispatched to The Hague. Since the government acknowledged that it had sent the documents in question, the defence attorneys asked the judges to hand down a judgement on this part of the lawsuit.
Who do you believe, the government and its claim that Gen Ante Gotovina is not in Croatia or the Hague prosecutor who claims that he is in Croatia? Vox pop 3 If the Hague tribunal knows that Gotovina ...is in Croatia why has it not helped the government. I think that is the logical way of looking at it.
Zagreb, 3 October: Hague tribunal spokesperson Florence Hartmann rejected on Friday 3 October the statement by the owner of the Zagreb-based weekly Nacional, Ivo Pukanic, that Chief Prosecutor of the ...Hague tribunal...
Zagreb, 23 September: Croatia's Deputy Prime Minister Goran Granic will on Thursday 25 September fly to The Hague to meet the UN war crimes tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, the ...government's public relations office reported on Tuesday.
Mostar, 29 December: A lawyer for Croatian General Ante Gotovina has assessed that testimonies of Bosnian Croat Defence Council (HVO) and Army of Bosnia-Hercegovina members as well as wartime ...documents from Bosnia could play a key role in contesting allegations of the UN war crimes tribunal's prosecutor that Gotovina was in Knin after 8 August 1995, when the largest number of crimes were committed in the wake of Operation Storm.
The Hague, 10 December: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Saturday 10 December officially confirmed that Croatian General Ante Gotovina had arrived at the UN ...court's detention unit at Scheveningen and welcomed his arrest and transfer as a significant event for the Hague tribunal. The procedure following arrival includes an identity check, informing Gotovina of his rights and the charges against him, a brief medical examination, and the start of talks on legal representation, said Jim Landale, adding that Gotovina would be enabled to talk with attorneys after he informed ICTY representatives of his wishes concerning counsel.
