Seks, who is also a vice president of the ruling HDZ party, was commenting at the request of the press on indictments which a Belgrade court's war crimes department filed against about 40 Croatians, including Seks, Ivan Vekic, Branimir Glavas and Tomislav Mercep.

"I don't recognise the decisions of the non-existent Yugoslav state, the decisions of a defeated army and its military courts and prosecutor's offices nor do I want to receive them," Seks said, adding that "not even dear God will serve me (such an indictment)."

"I don't intend to take that indictment because I would be recognising legitimacy and legality as well as admitting that the continuation of aggression is at work, this time by courts," Seks said, adding that "a Croatian citizen can't agree to taking the legal document of a criminal state and a criminal army."

Seks said he learned of the indictments unofficially via a court in Osijek where his daughter was employed.

Asked if refusal to be served the indictment constituted contempt of the Croatian legal system, Seks said being served the indictment was a matter of his good will.

"The next move is not the Croatian judiciary's but of some other forms of politics. I am not being prosecuted by the Croatian judiciary nor is Vekic. I neither expect nor seek nor need the Croatian judiciary's protection."

Seks said he expected all loose ends to be tied up in quiet diplomatic activity, out of the public eye, as was done in the case of Vesna Bosanac, a Croatian hospital manager whom Serbia also accused of genocide.

"The indictments which the Serbian judiciary has taken from the JNA should be dealt with only through quiet diplomacy so that the proceedings are dropped," said Seks.