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.
The three EU member countries will be represented by Foreign Ministers Jean Asselborn, Jack Straw and Ursula Plassnik.
The officials will discuss a draft conclusion on Croatia which is expected to be adopted by EU foreign ministers at a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday and by presidents and prime ministers of EU member states at the summit in Brussels on June 16 and 17.
Del Ponte said in her latest report, to be submitted to the UN Security Council, that Croatia was still not fully cooperating, but that progress had been made. She said that if Croatia continued to implement its action plan, cooperation could be full in several months. She added that she remained concerned that Gotovina had still not been located and transferred.
The task force is expected to voice its opinion about del Ponte's latest report.
The EU decision on the postponement of Croatia's EU entry talks also said that negotiations with Croatia would be opened as soon as the EU Council established that Croatia was fully cooperating with the Hague tribunal.