He said in parliament the national committee session scheduled for today had been postponed for technical reasons and that by the next session, on December 19, the SDP would decide how and if to further cooperate with the government in the committee.
Racan said he was not considering resigning to the post of committee chairman and that the evaluation of the cooperation had been prompted by the escalating conflict between the SDP and the HDZ, himself and Prime Minister Ivo Sanader.
"I allow Sanader to do as he pleases in his party and the government, but not the unfairness in the relations between the two parties," Racan said, adding that the SDP would not easily ignore the "grave insinuations" and accusations from the government that he was "guilty of the harmful (compensation) agreement with Austria".
"It's not realistic to expect the SDP and the former (SDP-led) government to accept responsibility for something we aren't guilty of. Sanader has deceived himself here."
Racan said it was inappropriate of the HDZ to try to cover up its mistake with the agreement by attacking his family and resorting to "insinuations and lies".
He added he was very dissatisfied with how the media treated his statements yesterday, saying they presented the problem with the HDZ as stemming from HDZ deputies' "insinuations" about his family, which he added was an attempt to conceal the real problem.
"I don't care if the government intervened or if it was a case of self-censorship, but for some media it is far more important to shift focus on the lies said about my wife and son. An intervention was made, successfully, to make this the basic problem," said Racan.