The move is more in the function of winning votes in the election campaign and of populist yielding to part of the electorate, Seks said, adding that he was against the decision.
He wondered what was the purpose of giving Italian citizenship to ethnic Italians who enjoy all the rights provided by Croatian citizenship and thus putting them in a position of "divided loyalty".
Seks said Italy's unilateral decision was not the European way and future, and that there was a "hidden agenda" behind it.
He refused to link this issue with that of dual citizenship enjoyed by Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, saying that Croatia bound itself by its Constitution to give special support to parts of the Bosnian Croat people.
Seks said that Croatia and Bosnia would regulate the acquisition of citizenship with an interstate agreement which would follow European endeavours to have people have only one citizenship.
He underlined that those already enjoying dual citizenship would not lose it but in the future citizenship would be granted only based on actual residence in a country.
Seks went on to say that the Croatian parliament would adequately react to Italy's decision on its economic belt in the Adriatic, which he added was unilateral. He said the Sabor was waiting for the government's position on the matter.
In late January, the Italian Senate passed a law declaring the ecological part of Italy's economic belt. Croatia unilaterally did the same in October 2003, but the following June, after pressure from Italy, postponed its application for 12 months for EU member states.
Seks confirmed that compensation for property seized from Austrian citizens in Croatia would not be settled by ratifying an already initialled agreement, but by amending the law on compensation for property seized during Yugoslavia's communist rule, namely by equating foreign and Croatian citizens.
Seks said the amendments were expected to be tackled by the summer and would render it unnecessary to sign bilateral agreements with individual countries. The issue will be settled on the level of protocol, as a technical issue, he added.
Seks said this would likely not cost the national budget much because the number of people qualifying for compensation was not high, and added the compensation would be paid over a longer period of time.
Seks said Austria attached importance to honouring the Croatian-Austrian damages agreement and less to how the issue was going to be settled in the legal and technical sense.
In a press release today, the Slovene Foreign Ministry said that the amendments to the Italian citizenship law were not in accordance with the Osimo accords. Under the amendments, citizenship might be granted to Croatian and Slovene citizens living in parts of Croatia and Slovenia which were under Italian rule until Italy and the former Socialist Yugoslavia reached a peace treaty after WWII.
Ljubljana cannot comment on the amended law because it has not been issued yet and has yet to be formally confirmed by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, read the press release.