"I will not comment on this latest development, but in any case it remains the government's firm commitment to defend the truth we all know -- Croatia was attacked, it had the right to defend itself, and we won the war that had been imposed on us," Sanader said after meeting trade union leaders in Zagreb.
"There is a prosecution, there is a defence, but there are also other ways of getting to the truth, through other institutes available under the rules of the International Criminal Tribunal," he added.
In a pre-trial brief filed ahead of the start of the joint trial of three Croatian army generals, Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac, the prosecution announced it would use transcripts submitted by the Croatian President's Office to prove the alleged existence of the so-called joint criminal enterprise.
The indictment alleges that the three generals, together with the Croatian wartime leadership, planned and carried out a combined military and police operation codenamed Storm with the aim of ethnically cleansing the areas of Croatia that were under Serb occupation at the time. The prosecution says that the plan was conceived at a meeting of the Croatian political and military leadership on the northern Adriatic archipelago of Brijuni on July 31, 1995.