The government will do its utmost to defend the truth about the Homeland War and the generals, the PM said.
He went on to say that he was confident that Gotovina was innocent, because everybody was innocent until proven guilty, but that nobody could be above the law.
No differences should be made between the indicted generals Rahim Ademi, Mladen Markac, Ivan Cermak and Milivoj Petkovic because they all deserve credit for what Croatia is today, Sanader said.
The government was right to conclude an agreement with Austria on compensation for Austrian citizens who left Croatia after World War II, Sanader said, adding that the agreement referred to former Croatian citizens who had not been compensated for their property that was confiscated during the communist regime under previous agreements between the former Yugoslavia and Austria.
"We are now rectifying an injustice," he added.
The government will protect its national assets, notably real estate, during accession talks with the EU, Sanader said, recalling that the Stabilisation and Association Agreement provided for the opening of the Croatian real estate market to foreign nationals in February 2009.
Legislation will be adopted to give the state the right to pre-emptive buying in case of islands and the state will not sell its land, regardless of whether it is farmland or land used for tourism purposes, the PM said.
Such land will be sold neither to foreign nationals nor to Croatians, it will only be possible to obtain a concession on it, he said.
Commenting on the strike of civil servants announced for December 28, Sanader said that trade unions were inconsistent because they had not organised strikes when the previous government slashed the salaries of civil servants by 40 percent.
Four unions of civil servants, including the army and police, have called on 65,000 employees in bodies of state administration to join in a strike on December 28 to protest against low salaries and an unsatisfactory status.