Seks recalled that Parliament had adopted the Declaration on the Homeland War in October 2000, which said that Croatia waged a just and legitimate war of liberation and not a war of aggression and conquest, and that it defended its territory from Serb aggression.
The declaration also said that Operation Storm paved the way for the subsequent peaceful reintegration of the Serb-occupied Croatian Danube region and the development of Croatia as a sovereign and democratic country.
Seks stressed that the operation had been carried out in accordance with international law and UN resolutions and that its purpose was to restore the constitutional, legal and territorial integrity of the Republic of Croatia.
"Operation Storm was not an organised criminal enterprise aimed at ethnic cleansing or violating international law. It was an operation based on the international right of every country to reintegrate its entire territory," Seks said.
Operation Storm was launched on 4 August 1995 and over the next four days it ended the Serb insurgency in central Croatia.
The central ceremony of the 10th anniversary will be held in Knin and will be addressed by the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister and the Parliament Speaker.