"No comment," he said to numerous questions from the press after a local election rally of his Croatian Democratic Union in Sibenik.
Government spokesman Ratko Macek said this was not about the amended indictment, but about "correspondence between the Prosecution and the defence of the accused," and that "a comment should be made by Justice Minister Vesna Skare-Ozbolt and not the prime minister".
He said Skare-Ozbolt had already made a comment but declined to say where it was published.
Asked by Hina over the phone, the justice minister declined to comment on the entire case.
The Hague tribunal's Prosecution has submitted a draft amended indictment against Cermak and Markac which expands the number of participants in a joint criminal enterprise to include unnamed individuals from the Croatian government, defence and interior ministries, the Croatian Democratic Union party and local authorities, attorneys said earlier today.
"That's more than 1,000 people," said one of Markac's attorneys, Miroslav Separovic, while the other, Goran Mikulicic, said the indictment was not amended in terms of facts. "The situations from the first indictment have been attributed differently".
The Hague tribunal indicted Cermak and Markac on 24 February 2004 for crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of war committed against Serb civilians in the wider Knin area during and after the summer 1995 Operation Storm. Cermak commanded the Knin military area after Storm, while Markac was the commander of the Interior Ministry special police during the operation.