Last week, the Hague war crimes tribunal's trial chamber accepted an objection to the indictment against Cermak and Markac in the part referring to a "criminal enterprise," and instructed the prosecutor's office to amend the indictment within three weeks.
Skare Ozbolt, who is the chief of the Democratic Centre (DC) party, commented on this decision on Saturday when she and some other DC members were taking part in a humanitarian action in Zagreb's main square.
Asked by reporters to comment on a statement by Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn, the current chairman of the European Union Council of Ministers, that 2009 was a sensible but also very demanding objective set for Croatia's EU membership, she said that "Croatia does not set goals which it cannot meet."
Asked to comment on accusations levelled against Franjo Turek, a former head of the Croatian Counter-Intelligence Agency (POA), that Croatia's entry talks were not opened this week because he had monitored the Hague tribunal's investigators, Skare Ozbolt said she believed that scandals in intelligence services were certainly nothing Croatia could be proud of. She went on to say that issues relevant to security services should not be discussed in the media but through institutionalised bodies in charge of controlling that those services work in line with law.