During her visit to the penitentiary in the town of Glina, 60 kilometres south of Zagreb, on Wednesday PM Kosor said that it was necessary to clarify some facts cited in the report and that this part of the job was made by the Office of the Chief State Prosecutor.
"This is a normal part of the process and we did it last weekend, and (clarification) refers to the war crimes prosecution," the premier said responding to reporters' questions while she was touring the prison compound.
We have shown our strength and we are doing this job not only for the sake of the completion of the accession negotiations but also for the interest of Croatia, she added.
She recalled that war crimes trials would be dealt with by four courts and that their capacities had been reinforced for that purpose and that the information about that was provided to the European Commission in Zagreb's last report on fulfilling benchmarks for the provisional closing of the negotiating area on judiciary and fundamental rights.
It is normal that a country aspiring to close the negotiations must be ready to incessantly explain and we have been the first to say that upon the closing of the Policy Area No.23 the job is not over and we must continue working, Kosor said.
Both we and the European Commission are overseeing all policy areas provisionally closed and this is not anything unusual or new, she added.
Asked whether statements of former Deputy Prime Minister and Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) official Damir Polancec could damage efforts to complete the negotiations with the EU, Kosor said that the EU's executive arm had recognised what Croatia had so done in the campaign against corruption and crime.
In this context she recalled a recent statement of the European Commission Vice President responsible for justice and fundamental rights, Viviane Reding, who said that she was impressed with Croatia's job in the judiciary and notably in the clamp-down on corruption and crime.