Commenting of the SDP initiative aimed at amending the Constitution so as to punish those who committed crimes during privatisation processes, Mesic said that war profiteers should not go unpunished.
The president said that war profiteering was also a war crime, stressing that while some were defending the country, others used this period for personal gain and thus caused harm to Croatia's defence.
Asked to comment on the Hague tribunal's verdict against Croatian Serb rebel leader Milan Martic, sentencing him to 35 years' imprisonment, Mesic said that the sentence was proof that the war started following Milosevic's aggression in pursuit of the idea of a "Greater Serbia".
Asked if Croatia would succeed in proving before the Hague tribunal that its former military and political leaders had not entered into a joint criminal enterprise with the aim of expelling ethnic Serbs, Mesic said that the state was prepared to make available all evidence requested by the defence or the prosecution, adding that it was up to the tribunal to decide. He expressed conviction that the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague was not a politically motivated court.