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  • BBC Monitoring European, 12/2004
    Newsletter

    Zagreb, 21 December: Fugitive Croatian Army General Ante Gotovina has no intention of surrendering to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, but is still willing to appear in Zagreb for an interview with tribunal investigators, his lawyer says. Luka Misetic said it was not necessary for Gotovina to appear in The Hague by 17 March 2005 in order for Croatia's cooperation with the tribunal to be assessed as satisfactory, but that Croatia "should do all it can to meet the international obligations it has assumed". He recalled that Croatia had been told before that without Gotovina in The Hague it would not obtain a positive opinion on its membership application, a candidate status, and a date for the start of entry talks, and that in the end Croatia got it all.