"The Czech government would thus join sides with Slovakia and other countries which prefer a speedy opening of talks with Zagreb," the BBC said carrying a report broadcast by the Slovak TV network TA3.
The TV station quoted Pavel Svoboda, a member of the parliament's European Affairs Committee, as saying that he believed in the presumption of innocence. "And nobody has proved to the Croatian government that it did not cooperate with the International Crime Tribunal in hundreds of cases. Nobody has," Svobda said.
A similar position is held by the chairmen of European affairs committees of all Visegrad Four countries, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland, although the Poles remain somewhat restrained, the BBC reported.