Prodanovic said he believed the amendments would be of "a technical nature".
"The amendments will not be radical or substantial. Their purpose will be to make the indictment more precise," he said, adding that it had been announced that the indictment against Gotovina would be amended according to the amended indictment against Cermak and Markac.
Asked if the defence of Cermak and Markac would oppose the joinder motion, the lawyers said that they would wait to see the prosecution motion before they made a final decision.
"It is too early to speak about it. We would rather wait for the prosecutor to file the motion to see his argument," Mikulicic said.
The lawyers assessed that a joinder would to some extent slow down preparations for the trial, but that they could be completed by the year's end as announced by Judge Kevin Parker at today's status conference.
Asked if the three defence teams had concluded "a nonaggression pact", Prodanovic said there was no such pact. He described the cooperation between the defence teams as "very fair and professional" and added that there was no reason for it not to continue that way in the future.
Asked if in terms of cooperation with the Croatian government their clients were neglected in relation to General Gotovina, Mikulicic said he did not get that impression in contacts with the government and the ministries of defence and the interior.
Generals Cermak and Markac, who voluntarily surrendered to the Hague tribunal in March 2004, are in Croatia on provisional release pending trial. General Gotovina has been in the tribunal's detention unit since 10 December 2005 after he was arrested in Spain.