Djukic told a news conference in Zagreb that "this is happening at a time of one of the biggest social, economic, political and moral crises in recent Croatian history" and that local Serbs "might again be scapegoats".
As soon as membership talks with the EU start, Croatia will face the issues of the return of Serbs, restitution of their property, tenancy rights which will be, according to Djukic, more difficult to overcome than the issue of the fugitive general Ante Gotovina and cooperation with the Hague tribunal.
Asked by reporters whether it was true that some refugee organisations in northwestern Bosnia-Herzegovina were trying to persuade Croatian Serb refugees not to return to Croatia, the SNS chief said that it was, unfortunately, true and that there were such examples in Serbia, too.
Those organisations are misinforming refugees about the return and property restitution in Croatia, he added.
Djukic, who is the mayor of the town of Donji Lapac, about 200 kilometres south of Zagreb near the border with Bosnia, said he would not run in the coming local elections and that his ambition was again to win a seat in the Sabor. At the 2003 parliamentary elections, the SNS failed to win any seat, and before those polls it was a parliamentary party.
Asked by reporters to comment on the recent founding assembly in Belgrade of the parliament and government of the so-called Republic of Serb Krajina (RSK), Djukic said that any serious politician should not pay too much attention to that event.
Djukic believes that those people, who claim to be representatives of Croatian Serbs who lived in Serb-occupied areas in the first half of 1990s, do not threaten Croatia and that "they are not political but rather a refugee organisation that wants to solve its status in Serbia".