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agreement referred to brigades of the army of Republika Srpska that would assist the
army of the RSK. As for other parts of the agreement, I’m not sure about that.
PROSECUTOR UERTZ-RETZLAFF: With the help of the usher, I would like to show
the witness the Exhibit tab 96 of Exhibit 352. Th is is a document of the 30th of July, 1995,
referring to a visit by Mr. Akashi, the special representative of the Secretary-General
of the United Nations, and other persons, in relation to an agreement, a proposed
agreement. Th e proposed agreement referred to, is that the Z-4 plan?
BABIĆ: No. Th is was - this should have been a component part of the Z-4 plan, or
rather, a precondition for the implementation of the Z-4 plan. So this was an agreement
on the disengagement of the army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina in the Bihać pocket;
or, to be more precise, this was not an agreement, it’s an announcement on agreement,
announcement of approving the proposals made by Mr. Akashi to the leadership of the
Republic of Serbian Krajina.
PROSECUTOR UERTZ-RETZLAFF: And the proposal was that no troops or individual
soldiers of the RSK would get engaged in the Bihać pocket, and refrain from any crossborder
ćactivities; is that what is proposed here?
BABIĆ: Th at’s right.
PROSECUTOR UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Th ere is a handwritten note on it saying the 20th
of September... No, I am sorry. I withdraw my question. Th is proposal to disengage in the
RSK, was that actually implemented?
BABIĆ: No.
PROSECUTOR UERTZ-RETZLAFF: What did happen? What was instead done?
BABIĆ: Combat continued. Mrkšić 99 or Milan Novaković, who was in command there,
or Martić or the police or the MUP of Serbia, none of them were withdrawn from the
fi ghting in that region.
PROSECUTOR UERTZ-RETZLAFF: In the transcript, it says Maksić. Is that correct or
... in the document as such it says General Mrkšić.
BABIĆ: Th at’s right. Mile Mrkšić, General Mile Mrkšić, the commander of the army of
the Republic of Serbian Krajina.
PROSECUTOR UERTZ-RETZLAFF: In 1994, did the Minister of Interior of the RSK
have a problem to get control over the police in the territory of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja,
and Western Srem?
BABIĆ: Yes, that’s right. Th e Minister of the Interior, right?
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