Minister Skare Ozbolt told reporters this on Tuesday as she and Supreme Court President Ivica Crnic were touring the construction site of the future Justice Square in Zagreb.
Asked about the possibility of the transfer of some cases from the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague to Croatian courts, Crnic said the national judiciary was prepared to take over cases because Croatian judges were educated and had experience in war crimes trials.
"I think that trials can be conducted in a fair and just way. Besides, technical conditions will be provided," Crnic said.
He added that all county courts were capable of organising war crimes trials, and that the decision on whether Zagreb's or Vukovar's County Court would be selected to organise the trial of the Vukovar Three would be made when "we learn if the Hague tribunal will refer the case to us".
Former Yugoslav People's Army officers Mile Mrksic, Miroslav Radic and Veselin Sljivancanin, also called the Vukovar Three, are indicted for the 1991 Ovcara massacre in eastern Croatia, They are currently kept in custody in the Hague tribunal's detention centre waiting for the tribunal to decide whether they will be put on trial in Croatia or in Serbia-Montenegro, following last week's proposal by the tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte.