Ivica Kostovic, a former head of the cabinet of the first Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and a member of the commission for dealing with documents after Tudjman's death, told the Croatian national broadcaster (HTV) on Thursday evening that the constitutional law on cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia committed the country to cooperation with that UN tribunal but he stressed that cooperation should not be unselective and that procedure had to be respected.
"The procedure was that everything should go via the Office for Cooperation with the Hague tribunal," Kostovic told the news programme.
He said that he was obliged to operate in compliance with the Croatian government's decisions.
According to him, immediately after Tudjman's death he ordered the sealing of his documents in a professional way.
He recalled that the Croatian government before the government led by Prime Minister Ivica Racan had won the case with the Hague tribunal about not being obliged to provide the tribunal unselectively with documents, and that it could be exempted from the obligation to deliver documents referring to national security.
Kostovic said that the former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) had produced no document to the Hague tribunal's prosecution.
