He told reporters he expected the report to contain several recommendations, which he added was expected anyway and would not come as a surprise.
Asked on the basis of what he expected the report del Ponte would submit to the Council of the European Union at a regular meeting in Luxembourg to be positive for Croatia, Mesic answered, "On the basis of some information".
Asked to comment on Slovenia's announcement that it would inform the Luxembourg meeting about Croatia's "unacceptable" behaviour in the border area of Piran Bay in the northern Adriatic, Mesic said, "I think this no longer makes any sense".
He reiterated Croatian-Slovene cooperation was good, particularly in the economy, and that solutions to outstanding issues could be found only through open talks.
"If we acknowledge the rules of democratic society we can find a solution very quickly. But to seek a solution beyond our agreements, I think it makes no sense. We need to be a tad more serious."
According to a Slovene Foreign Ministry press release yesterday, Minister Ivo Vajgl said a Croatian ship had come too close to Slovene territorial waters, which he added was "unacceptable", and accused Croatia of trying to create new facts and prejudge the settlement of outstanding issues.
"One patrol ship normally sailing the Croatian territorial sea suddenly causes a storm, as though someone is going to attack Slovenia. I really don't know that there's anyone in the world who thinks we'll attack someone with our navy, except Vajgl of course," Mesic said, adding outstanding issues were not solved democratically only if someone wanted tension.
He said that now that elections in Slovenia were over, there was not one reason to seek solutions to outstanding issues beyond "our bilateral agreements".
Mesic reiterated the two countries should reach an agreement on the border on the sea, but added that if that was not possible the two sides should seek international arbitration and not strain relations.
He went on to say that until the sea border was determined, the middle of the bay served as the demarcation line.
Speaking of another outstanding issue -- Croatian citizens' deposits in the former Ljubljanska Banka -- Mesic said Croatian citizens were put in an unequal position when the bank was dissolved and that all who claimed this issue should be settled within talks on succession to the former Socialist Yugoslavia were wrong. He added the Croatian depositors were the bank's clients and remained clients regardless of which country they were the citizens of.
Mesic declined to comment on yesterday's TV duel between possible presidential candidates, saying candidates for the head of state could be called such once they collected 10,000 signatures and registered their candidacies with the Election Commission.