Several embassies in Croatia and some offices of international institutions have received threatening letters, police said on Saturday. Police did not detail the contents of the letters or say which embassies had received them. "Police are investigating these threats, while protection measures for embassies in Zagreb have been increased," a spokesman for the Interior Ministry told state news agency Hina. State television said that among the embassies involved were those of Britain and the Netherlands. They are among the leading countries in the EU opposed to the start of entry talks with Croatia on the grounds that Zagreb's cooperation with the U.N. war crimes tribunal is unsatisfactory. Croatia is scheduled to start accession talks on March 17, but postponement is very likely as Zagreb has failed to track down the fugitive General Ante Gotovina -- a key condition for many EU countries to agree on the start of the talks. Gotovina has been indicted by the war crimes tribunal in The Hague for alleged crimes against humanity during a 1995 offensive against Croatian Serbs. Croatia insists it is doing everything it can to locate and transfer Gotovina to The Hague, but Hague tribunal chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte says she does not believe Zagreb has done its best.
