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The chief UN prosecutor Carla del Ponte thanked the Croatian and Spanish authorities for their work (Photo: The Council of the European Union)

EU welcomes Gotovina capture

EU and NATO officials have praised the arrest of war crimes suspect general Ante Gotovina by the Spanish police in the Canary Islands on Wednesday night (7 December).

The former Croat general is one of the war crimes suspects most wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.

He was arrested at a restaurant in the resort of Playa de las Americas in Tenerife, after a surprise action by police special agents, the Spanish police indica...

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The chief UN prosecutor Carla del Ponte thanked the Croatian and Spanish authorities for their work (Photo: The Council of the European Union)

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