Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said in Borovo on Monday that she did not watch Sunday's political talk show "Nedjeljom u dva" on Croatian Television and did not know what the leader of the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS), Milorad Pupovac, said in that programme, but that she definitely "cannot agree with statements about ethnic cleansing having been carried out in Croatia."
"That is simply not true. The truth is that Croatia was a victim of the Greater Serbian aggression and those are the facts," Kosor said when asked to comment on Pupovac's statement about ethnic cleansing.
Commenting on the 1995 Operation Storm, Pupovac said, among other things, that it was accompanied by the expulsion of the local Serb population committed through inhumane treatment, murder, arson and destruction of property and infrastructure, after which laws were enforced that prevented people to return to their homes.
Asked about the request from Croatian People's Party (HNS) president Radimir Cacic that the government publish on the Internet what had been negotiated in the process of Croatia's EU membership talks, Kosor said that citizens interested in the membership talks already could get answers to their questions by contacting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration.
"Everything is public and in our communication strategy, which is to begin soon, we will inform citizens in detail about what has been done."
