| Brammertz "unhappy with Croatia’s cooperation" |
| 18 November 2009 | 12:08
| Source:
Tanjug |
ZAGREB --
Serge Brammertz is not satisfied with the investigations regarding Croatia's 1995 military onslaught against the country's Serb areas, reports say.
Zagreb daily Jutarnji List wrote on Tuesday that the chief Hague prosecutor was unhappy about the probes into the whereabouts of the Operation Storm artillery logs.
The daily stated that according to the diplomatic sources Brammertz had already sent his written report to the UN Security Council and that he would also address this UN body on December 3.
The report spells "more bad news for Croatia’s efforts and efforts of some countries members of the EU to unblock the judiciary system chapter [in negotiations with EU] as soon as possible, blocked by the Hague Tribunal prosecutor’s position, now more unfavorable than before", said the newspaper.
Jutarnji List added that its EU sources had seen the contents of Brammertz’s report and pointed out that the Office of the Chief Prosecutor considered that the results of the working group formed by the Croatian government were limited, and that none of the requested artillery logs had been found.
The Hague Prosecutor’s Office pointed out that they expect the Croatian authorities to continue the investigations so the documents could be found ,and handed over before the trial of Ante Gotovina is finished.
This former general is being tried at the Hague Tribunal for Operation Storm war crimes along with two others: Ivan Čermak and Mladen Markač.
The logs concern the Croatian military's attacks against Serb civilian areas. The Hague believes that the documents offer key proof of the excessive shelling of Knin during the offensive that was led by Gotovina.
The Croatian authorities, however, claim that the logs either do not exist, or were lost, prevous reports said.
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