The press asked Mesic to comment on chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte's claims that she had been sent a falsified report in the Blaskic case.
"As far as I know, the documents that were always sent were available to the government and I don't know about anything else. Whether this or that version was sent depends on whether there were a number of versions," he said after a Zagreb City Assembly session, adding that everything that was sent had been authentic.
The UN court last week declassified a year-old request by the Prosecutor's Office to review the final verdict which on 9 July 2004 reduced Blaskic's 45-year prison term to nine years' imprisonment.
The prosecution bases its request, among other things, on what it claims is new evidence about which testimonies are expected to be provided by three protected witnesses and a tribunal expert on documents from Croatian archives, William Tomljanovic.
In a written statement enclosed with the request, Tomljanovic suggested that Goran Granic, a former Croatian deputy prime minister, submitted to the Prosecutor's Office in November 2000 a Croatian Interior Ministry report on crimes committed in Ahmici, Bosnia and Herzegovina, that was reduced to 20 pages and did not contain significant elements.
Tomljanovic subsequently found the 40-page original. The Prosecutor's Office said that manipulation with that and other documents had significantly affected the reduction of the sentence and therefore requested that it be reviewed.