Answering questions by MPs at the beginning of the 11th parliamentary session on Wednesday, Sanader said that Mesic's statement was not correct, because Montenegrin forces, too, had taken part in the aggression on Croatia.
To support his statement, Sanader said that Montenegrin Foreign Minister Miodrag Vlahovic apologised in Zagreb on Tuesday for his country's involvement in the aggression.
"I want to hope that (Mesic's) statement was unguarded, that he made it because he could not think fast enough in that situation," Sanader told Slaven Letica of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) club of deputies, who called Mesic's statement incomprehensible and weird, wondering how it would affect Croatia's lawsuit at the Hague-based Court of Justice.
The PM said that Croatia nevertheless wanted to normalise relations with Montenegro and Serbia, but on the principle of mutual recognition and pro-European initiative.
According to the agenda that was defined today, MPs will discuss some 50 items during the sitting, which lasts until December 15, the constitutional deadline for regular parliamentary sittings.
By that time, the Sabor is expected to adopt next year's budget, however, since the document has still not been sent into parliamentary procedure, it is expected to be included in the agenda subsequently.
The parliament will discuss a government-sponsored bill on Homeland War veterans' rights, as well as four opposition bills calling for annulling the provision from the Road Safety Law on 0.0 percent of alcohol in a driver's blood.
The parliament is also to discuss the HSP's request to establish a commission to investigate how transcripts from the office of the late president Franjo Tudjman were handled.