Asked by the host of a Croatian Radio program about an interview with Yugoslavia's last defence secretary, Veljko Kadijevic, published on the Internet portal Business.hr, in which Kadijevic claimed that Mesic and Vuk Draskovic had conspired to topple the former Yugoslav People's Army and the then Serbian leadership, the Croatian president said he had read the interview and remarked that everybody had the right to stupidity, including Kadijevic.
Mesic went on to say that he could not have had any influence on the election of the Serbian government, and added he expected the country where Kadijevic resided to extradite him regardless of his advanced age.
"Kadijevic organised a crime and he has to answer for it and if I were in his shoes, I could not sleep peacefully," Mesic said.
Asked about the failure to appoint a new director of the national broadcasting company HRT today, Mesic said he did not believe in the conspiracy theory under which there were plans to see that the HRT was headed by an acting director until parliamentary elections, because that person would be more easily influenced, but that it would not be good if that happened.
"It would not be good for the strongest media company in Croatia to enter the election period with an incomplete leadership," Mesic said.
Commenting on the radio host's statement that Hina's Governing Council would meet tomorrow and that its members were divided over whether they should elect a new director, with two members for, two against, and the council's chairman undecided, Mesic said he did not want to comment on it yet.
"Let those who assumed responsibility for dealing with that problem, and those are the members of the Governing Council, state their position," Mesic said, adding he expected the Council to make a fair and law-based decision.