According to sources from the Luxembourg Presidency of the EU, representatives of Croatia and the ICTY Prosecutor's Office were not invited to attend the meeting.
After it postponed negotiations with Croatia, which were to have begun on March 17, the EU set up a task force to evaluate the country's cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. The task force includes representatives of the incumbent and two future presidencies of the EU, Luxembourg, Great Britain and Austria, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security policy Javier Solana, and EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn.