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	Stjepan Mesić - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stjepan Mesić (born December 24, 1934) has been the President of the Republic of Croatia since 2000.
		Mesić was a deputy in the Croatian Parliament in 1960s, and then absent from politics until 1990 when he became a member of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and later the Prime Minister of Croatia.
		Stjepan Mesić, commonly shortened to Stipe Mesić, was born in Orahovica, Slavonia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stjepan_Mesic (1227 words)

	PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN CROATIA
		Stjepan Mesic, who is very popular amongst his fellow countrymen and is both a loyal and courageous defender of democratic values, has worked hard towards breaking the international isolation into which his authoritarian predecessor Franjo Tudjman had driven Croatia.
		Stjepan Mesic, who is seventy years old and a qualified lawyer, was the last President of the now dismembered Federation of Yugoslavia; he started his political career in the 1960's occupying a seat in the Croatian Parliament.
		Stjepan Mesic has always declared that, "Croatia is the last country where Ante Gotovina would try to hide since everyone is interested in his capture," maintaining that his country should provide proof within a month's time that the fugitive general is not in Croatia.
	robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/croatie/presidentielles/resultats2.htm (876 words)

	United Press International - International - Mesic says Milosevic sought Zagreb attack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mesic said the demand for the assault on Zagreb was made during a meeting of the rump presidency of the now defunct six-republic Yugoslav federation attended only by its members controlled by Milosevic.
		Mesic retorted that paramilitary units from Serbia and Montenegro together with the army attacked many Croatian towns, including Dubrovnik and Vukovar, which was razed to the ground by late November 1991.
		Mesic said that in the summer of 1995 when Croatian forces mounted an offensive on Knin, the Serbian stronghold in Croatia, Milosevic was not bothered too much over the exodus of local Serbs.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20021002-032219-8072r (1139 words)

	Stjepan Mesic - President of the Republic of Croatia
		Stjepan Mesic [often called Stipe Mesic] was elected president of the Republic of Croatia on 7 February 2000, succeeding Franjo Tudjman, whose death prompted the elections.
		Mesic, a pro-European and pro-NATO centrist vowed to be the opposite of his autocratic and nationalist predecessor.
		Mesic was born on 24 December 1934 in the town of Orahovica.
	www.setimes.com /cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/infoBios/setimes/resource_centre/bios/mesic_stjepan (304 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Watergate-style spying scandal rocks Croatia
		Mesic said that on 5 October, POA agents grilled her for five and a half hours in search of compromising details about his personal life and official duties.
		TV and newspapers reported that after Mesic submitted his request, the prime minister reacted by telling aides, “Signing a decision to relieve the secret service chief of his duties is the last thing I will do.” The prime minister denied that the POA had done anything illegal, and gave the agency chief his firm backing.
		A source close to Mesic told the IWPR that the president had no wish to aggravate the matter further; all he sought was the removal of the head secret police chief.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details_print.cfm?id=10415 (1028 words)

	Kokkalis Program
		His Excellency President Stjepan Mesic delivered a public address at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, May 6, 2002, at the invitation of the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East Central Europe.
		Stjepan Mesic was elected President of Croatia last February, after pledging to move the country away from the nationalism and authoritarianism of his predecessor, Franjo Tudjman, who ruled Croatia from independence in 1991 until his death in late 1999.
		Born in 1934 in eastern Croatia, Mesic served during the 1960's as a deputy in the Croatian parliament, and Croatia’s representative in the collective Yugoslav presidency in the early 1990's when the federation began disintegrating.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /kokkalis/leaders_mesic.html (264 words)

	ZNet Commentary: Milosevic in the Hague: Round Two
		According to the Serbian and Croatian press, the televised verbal duel between Milosevic and Mesic in the Hague courtroom was closely watched by approximately 90% of the total population in each state.
		Mesic substantiated his claim thatBelgrade officials of the nineties were responsible for the war by citing Milosevic's famous speech in Kosovo, and the "serbianization" campaign of the JNA (Yugoslav national army) during the armed rebellion of Serbs in Croatia.
		Stjepan Mesic testified in the Hague that Tudjman told him at the time that he was going to meet Slobodan Milosevic alone in Karadjordjevo.
	www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2002-12/04grubacic.cfm (1224 words)

	ZNet \|Kosovo \| Milosovec at the Hague
		Similarly, the claim made by Mesic in his testimony that during World War II in Yugoslavia "mostly Jews and some Serbs" met their doom, is ripe for debate (the genocide of the Serbs in Croatia during the WWII is acknowledged as one of the most horrendous episodes in the whole war).
		One of the weakest points in Stjepan Mesic's verbal confrontation with Milosevic was the polemic concerning his rift with Tudjman, the ruling party of the time, the HDZ (Croatian Democratic Community), and official Croatian politics in the spring of 1994.
		Mesic claimed that he parted with Tudjman based on their disagreement over the division of Bosnia and Herzegovina, because Tudjman refused to end the state plunder of Croatia, and because Tudjman was clearly not prone to abide by the law and a lawful state.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=2545 (1843 words)

	Milosevic trial: Croatia's President Mesic gives evidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mesic is the first head of state to testify at the tribunal.
		Mesic’s response to charges of his own involvement levelled by Milosevic was to say, “All countries have Mafia, but the Croatian Mafia is the only one that has an entire country.” He denied any knowledge of Croatian atrocities whilst he occupied leadership positions and insisted that only Bosnian born volunteers fought in Bosnia.
		Mesic himself told the court, “The victories in the homeland war were glorious because they made it possible for Croatia to reach each and every part of the Croatian state.” Even the UN Security Council warned him in February 1994 to withdraw regular troops or face serious consequences.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/nov2002/milo-n01_prn.shtml (1244 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Croatia's Mesic Re-Elected in Boost for EU Bid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Western diplomats see Mesic as a useful counterweight to Sanader's ruling center-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and praise him for denouncing war crimes committed by Croats during conflicts that tore apart former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
		Mesic's foreign policy adviser Ivica Mastruko said the victory would be greeted as good news in European capitals.
		Mesic was the surprise winner of a landmark ballot in 2000, replacing the late Franjo Tudjman who led Croatia to independence but whose nationalist policies alienated the West.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/01/17/croatias_mesic_re_elected_in_boost_for_eu_bid (544 words)

	PRSIDENTIAL ELECTION IN CROATIA
		The outgoing President of the Republic Stjepan Mesic failed by a narrow margin to win an absolute majority of the votes: he won 48.9% versus 20.3% for his main rival Social Affairs Minister, Jadranska Kosor (Croat Democratic Community, HDZ).
		Stjepan Mesic is to continue his campaign on the danger that a victory by the Democratic Community (HDZ) candidate would represent for the country - the latter winning the general elections on 23
		Stjepan Mesic for his part has promised, if he wins, to invest more in the economic sector, notably in order to attract foreign investment in areas of Croatia that are still suffering in the aftermath of the war with Serbia.
	www.robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/croatie/presidentielles/resultats.htm (630 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Press not surprised by Mesic win (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mesic hopes to get Croatia into EU The Croatian press shows little surprise that incumbent president Stjepan Mesic was re-elected for a second term on Sunday.
		The paper quotes extensively from Mr Mesic's victory speech in which he praised the country's "democratic maturity", and claimed that his victory proved that it was possible to win by running a positive campaign.
		It quotes Mr Mesic as saying that now is the time to put behind us "the lies, intrigues and dirty tricks" that marked the campaign and concentrate on Croatia's "strategic goals" in a bid to bring the country closer to the EU.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/4181441.stm (672 words)

	CEELI - ABA Presents Annual CEELI Award to President Stjepan Mesic of Croatia
		Mesic began his political activism as a student leader at the University of Zagreb and later became a member of Parliament for the Republic of Croatia.
		Mesic was president of the SFRY until Dec. 5, 1991.
		On Feb. 7, 2000, Mesic was elected president of Croatia.
	www.abanet.org /ceeli/press_releases/08.12.02_mesic_award_pr.html (569 words)

	CNN.com - Milosevic grills Croat president - Oct. 2, 2002
		He said Mesic, who was the last president of a united Yugoslavia in 1991, had Serb villages torched in the Balkan conflicts of the early 1990s.
		Mesic, who was the last to hold the rotating presidency of the old Yugoslav federation before its collapse in 1991 and who later went on to lead Croatia, denied the accusation.
		Mesic avoided looking at Milosevic and calmly told judges he served a year in prison in 1975 for comments he made demanding more democracy for Croatia under Yugoslavia's former communist rule.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/10/02/milosevic (438 words)

	Mario's Cyberspace Station: Journalists at UN war crimes tribunal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But, interestingly, Stjepan Mesic personally disclosed that he was ICTY protected witness and also confirmed the authenticity of transcripts of his "secret" testimonials published in "Slobodna Dalmacija" (2000) even two years before now indicted journalists did it 2004.
		The Mesic statement was relevant in the Blaskic trial because the latter was in command of Bosnian Croat forces in central Bosnia.
		Croatia's President Stjepan Mesic confirmed Peratovic's role in the Feral Tribune, issue no. 967, which stated that six journalists, including Gordan Malic of the Globus wire service, plus ex-police chief Ranko Ostojic and several British diplomats supplied misleading information to the Croatian public that Gotovina was in Croatia.
	mprofaca.cro.net /haag_novinari.html (4380 words)

	TruthNews
		Croatia's pro-Western President Stjepan Mesic won a secondfive-year term in a run-off election Sunday, promising to build a modern country and lead Croatia into the European Union.
		Mesic pledged to cooperate with the U.N. War Crimes tribunal in The Hague, which is one of the conditions the European Union laid out before it begins to negotiate Croatia's accession.
		Mesic's willingness to cooperate with the Tribunal puts him on a collision course with the nationalists, who still see some of the suspects on the War Crimes court's most wanted list as national heroes.
	www.truthnews.net /daily/2005010112.htm (212 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mesic is positive for Croatia, both for maintaining policy continuity and for the country's chances to join the EU,'' Peter Botoucharov, head of emerging markets strategy at Commerzbank AG in London, wrote in a note to Bloomberg.
		Mesic was backed by eight parties and Kosor, a former journalist, was the candidate of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union, or HDZ party, Hina said.
		Mesic won a first-round poll on Jan. 2 with 48.92 percent of the votes, just short of the 50 percent needed for an outright victory, AFP reported at the time.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=a6RfWPbV9DsM&refer=europe (399 words)

	Milosevic slams last Communist President of Yugoslavia at UN Tribunal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mesic was the last to hold the presidency of communist Yugoslavia before its bloody collapse in 1991 and later went on to lead Croatia.
		Mesic, who was the last to hold the rotating presidency of the old Yugoslav federation before its bloody collapse in 1991 and who later went on to lead Croatia, denied the accusation.
		Maybe Mesic should check with the Pakrac Serbs in 1987, when my friend was forced many times to run through thrown stones with her Serb friends WHO had to cross a guantlet of thrown stones from their Croat neighbors.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/764133/posts (1353 words)

	Planet Ark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ZAGREB - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic has called for a regional conference to be held on protection of the Adriatic amid growing local opposition to the Druzhba-Adria oil pipeline, seen as a threat to the environment.
		Mesic has been a fervent supporter of the Druzhba-Adria integrated pipeline project involving Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary and Croatia.
		Mesic faces a presidential ballot on Jan. 2, with local surveys suggesting he was likely to be re-elected.
	www.planetark.com /avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=28639 (391 words)

	Croatia - International Special Reports
		Mesic became involved in politics, first as an activist fighting for worker’s rights then as a law student in Zagreb.
		This did nothing to boost Mesic’s own political ambitions as he lost in several attempts to regain political office; however, six years after leaving the HDZ party, again running in a race most people assumed he would lose, Mesic became Tudjman’s successor as President of Croatia.
		Mesic is also credited with giving Croatia the political and economic traction it needs to make a strong bid for EU and NATO membership.
	www.internationalspecialreports.com /europe/01/croatia/president.html (1479 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mesic, the first Croatian president to pay an official visit to Belgrade, said the talks took place in good a atmosphere.
		Mesic accepted the "symbolic apology", adding that he also wished to apologize to everyone "on whom the citizens of Croatia have inflicted pain or damage, by abusing their authority or working against the law".
		Mesic and the speaker of the state community's parliament, Dragoljub Micunovic, both assessed that the two countries had the same goals a united Europe, that is integration into the European Union.
	www.mfa.gov.yu /Policy/Bilaterala/Croatia/activities_e/110903_e.html (308 words)

	Presidential elections in Croatia go to second round (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Stjepan Mesic, the Croatian Peoples Party (HNS) candidate, won 41.1 percent, against 27.7 percent for Drazen Budisa of the Social Democratic Party/Croatian Social Liberal Party (SDP/HSLS) coalition.
		Mesic is regarded as something of a war hero for his role in commanding a flotilla of small boats in the Adriatic Sea that broke the Serb siege of Dubrovnik, carrying humanitarian aid into the harbour.
		Mesic, regarded as the most likely winner, began his campaign by accusing elements of the country's intelligence services and the military of trying to torpedo his chances.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/jan2000/croa-j28_prn.shtml (935 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Croatia's president: We failed on war crimes issue
		ZAGREB –; President Stjepan Mesic admitted on Friday that Croatia had failed to deal fully with war crimes issues now casting a dark cloud over its European Union membership bid.
		Mesic said he was confident no one currently in authority was sheltering Gotovina, seen by many Croats as a hero of the 1991-95 war of independence.
		Mesic was due to be sworn in later on Friday in a ceremony attended mostly by heads of states from neighbouring countries.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20050218-0351-croatia-president.html (599 words)

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