Brussels, 16/03/2005 (Agence Europe) - MEPs from different parties were annoyed at the postponement of accession negotiations with Croatia due to the failure to bring the war criminal Ante Gotovina to the Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague (p 4). In a press release Doris Pack (CDU), president of the EP delegation for relations with Southern Europe said that she got the impression that this was not about Gotovina but rather, involved a pretext for keeping Croatia outside the EU. She noted that Croatia had already frozen Gotovina's assets. German Green Milan Horacek protested that the EU sought the lifting of the arms embargo on China but at the time justified the postponement of negotiations with Croatia by brandishing its principles. Horacek said that Gotovina also had a French passport since his time in the Foreign Legion and also had good contacts in Paraguay where he worked as a military advisor, “theoretically, he could be hiding anywhere”. According to Horacek, the EU should agree to Prime Minister Sanader's idea of setting up a common Task Force for searching for him.