"What you are saying is appalling, that someone from USKOK, an independent institution which must see to justice and equity... that information would leak from that institution. That's really appalling. I don't believe it and if you have proof, please produce it," Kosor said in response to questions from the press.

She warned that no information from any investigation should be public. "That's against the law and against the Constitution and the government will certainly try to find out what is happening and who is possibly giving statements that should not be public at this stage of the investigation. That's a threat against the legal system and pressure on courts."

Kosor also commented on yesterday's statements by the Hague war crimes tribunal's chief prosecutor, Serge Brammertz, and Serbian President Boris Tadic, about her support to the tribunal's indictees.

She said Croatia's cooperation with the tribunal was very open and full and that Serbia's accusations were in keeping with the fact that "many politicians in Serbia can't accept historical facts, and one of them is that Croatia was attacked, that it was a victim of aggression and that a defensive war was fought, and not an armed civil conflict, as Serbian President Boris Tadic likes to say."

Kosor said one should accept the historical facts that during the 1995 Operation Storm Croatia "smashed the teeth of the bloodsucker Milosevic and his Greater Serbia policy," adding that Croatian soldiers deserved the credit for the liberation of the occupied parts of Croatia.