Mesic made the statement after a meeting with citizens in his office on Saturday.
Asked by reporters about similarities between the HDZ in 1999 and the SDP as it was now, Mesic said that the only similarity was the lack of a party leadership with a single leader. "That is the only similarity, because there is the lack of a single person to act as party president and candidate for the post of prime minister," Mesic said.
Another problem for the SDP is that parliamentary elections are getting closer, and the party has to elect a new president within 90 days from the former leader Ivica Racan's resignation, Mesic said.
Asked to comment on why after the year 2000 Croatia did not use the rule 54 bis of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Hague war crimes tribunal, which reads that states are not obliged to submit documents the disclosure of which threatens national security, Mesic said that Croatia had exercised that right where it was deemed necessary.
The office for cooperation with the Hague tribunal sought through the government certain documents that were possessed by the Office of the President and was given those documents. The sections containing secrets were blacked out. Secrets were protected only in case when the disclosure of names threatened to reveal the network of intelligence informants, which is what nobody wants to reveal, and the tribunal tolerated it, Mesic explained.
Mesic believes the UN Security Council is not likely to discuss the alleged deal between ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte and Serbia regarding the concealing of documents on Serbia's aggression on Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Asked if the failure of the International Court of Justice to find Serbia directly responsible for genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina was a victory for Serbian diplomacy, Mesic answered negatively.
Serbia cannot join European institutions unless it extradites Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, Mesic said.