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Humanitarian Law CenterCvjetan, if released, has absolutely no possibility to influence the furthercourse of this procedure.As a defence counsellor, I may say before this court that I have also beenhired in the Hague tribunal as General Pavle Strugar’s defence counsellorand I can inform the court that the general is provisionally released to defendhimself. The Federal Government also provided guarantees for him tobe provisionally released. Besides him, Mrs. Biljana Plavišić was provisionallyreleased, as well as other defendants before that court. So, I believe thatour court could apply the same practice as the Hague tribunal.”Pursuant to Article 178 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the defendant’s attorneyore Kalanj proposes that the court extracts from the court documentation,first of all, the interrogation of the defendant record from 24May 1999.“If the trial panel refuses to extract the interrogation of the defendantrecord from 24 May 1999 from the court documentation, then I require thatin the following two days, prior to the next session scheduled, the investigativejudge who made the record on 24 May 1999 and the court reporterwho worked with the investigative judge on the case that day, should beexamined as witnesses.”Dejan Demirović’s defence counsellor, Božidar Filipović, is asking that thecourt asks the defendant the following question: Has he ever seen or contactedwith the now late Dragutin Stanković, the attorney from Prokuplje.The court brings theRulingThe defendant should answer the aforementioned question even thoughhe has already answered it.74