Brammertz in Zagreb, demands documents

Hague Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz has repeated his call to Croatia to hand over military documents regarding Operation Storm.

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Hague Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz has repeated his call to Croatia to hand over military documents regarding Operation Storm. Brammertz asked Deputy Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and Justice Minister Ivana Simonovic to deliver artillery logbooks, which the Tribunal believes contain conclusive proof of the excessive and unselective shelling of Knin and the surrounding region during Operation Storm in 1995. Brammertz in Zagreb, demands documents Unlike his predecessor Carla Del Ponte, Brammertz’s visit to Zagreb was kept under wraps, and he did not give any statements after meeting with Kosor. She told Brammertz that Croatia was cooperating with the Tribunal and that it would transfer any documents it managed to find. “Everything we have found and everything we have, we have given to the prosecution. We sent a new report about this in late January, so I can safely say that the government has nothing to hide from anyone,” said the minister. She said that it could be a case of crossed wires, and that Zagreb and the Tribunal were thinking of two separate things. “Lost in translation,” was MP Ante Kotromanovic’s attempt to explain the discrepancies. Kotromanovic was a colleague of Ante Gotovina and a commander of an operative group during Storm. He said that there had been a misunderstanding, because the artillery logbooks in the sense that the Tribunal wanted them, did not exist. He said that the Hague was using NATO terminology, while the Croatian military at the time had used Yugoslav People’s Army terminology. “When we talk about so-called artillery logbooks, they never existed. As a commander of an operative group, myself and other commanders knew what our orders were and we carried them out. We kept wartime operative journals, which are in The Hague,” he explained. This is a very sensitive issue in Zagreb as, if the Hague reports cooperation failures to the UN Security Council, the Netherlands will automatically block further Croatian negotiations with the EU. EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn also expressed his concern over the issue yesterday in Brussels. Serge Brammertz (FoNet, archive)

Brammertz in Zagreb, demands documents

Unlike his predecessor Carla Del Ponte, Brammertz’s visit to Zagreb was kept under wraps, and he did not give any statements after meeting with Kosor.

She told Brammertz that Croatia was cooperating with the Tribunal and that it would transfer any documents it managed to find.

“Everything we have found and everything we have, we have given to the prosecution. We sent a new report about this in late January, so I can safely say that the government has nothing to hide from anyone,” said the minister.

She said that it could be a case of crossed wires, and that Zagreb and the Tribunal were thinking of two separate things.

“Lost in translation,” was MP Ante Kotromanović’s attempt to explain the discrepancies. Kotromanović was a colleague of Ante Gotovina and a commander of an operative group during Storm.

He said that there had been a misunderstanding, because the artillery logbooks in the sense that the Tribunal wanted them, did not exist. He said that the Hague was using NATO terminology, while the Croatian military at the time had used Yugoslav People’s Army terminology.

“When we talk about so-called artillery logbooks, they never existed. As a commander of an operative group, myself and other commanders knew what our orders were and we carried them out. We kept wartime operative journals, which are in The Hague,” he explained.

This is a very sensitive issue in Zagreb as, if the Hague reports cooperation failures to the UN Security Council, the Netherlands will automatically block further Croatian negotiations with the EU.

EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn also expressed his concern over the issue yesterday in Brussels.

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