Commenting on the current issues during his meeting with citizens on weekends, the Croatian head of state said that one of possibilities might be the joint control of Croatia and Slovenia's air space.
After her meeting with Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor on Saturday, Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said they had agreed setting up a task force to examine possibilities of joint control of the two countries' air space.
Josipovic said today that las Monday the Defence Council had discussed several options including that one Kosor mentioned yesterday.
It was concluded that the council should reach the best solution within next 60 days, the president said.
"The main limiting factor in efforts to solve the problem of our air defence is budget and budget restrictions. Let us wait for details of this and other variants," Josipovic said adding that the solution could be expected in the next two months.
He declined to speak about other models under discussion.
In response to reporters' questions about former Novosti editor-in-chief Rade Dragojevic having been appointed last Friday as this minority Serb weekly's editor-in charge and replaced by Ivica Djikic in the office of the editor-in-chief, Josipovic said that it was utter untruth that he or anybody from his office had demanded his replacement as the editor-in-chief.
Josipovic reiterated that publishing the cover with the caption "Both are down, both of them!" by this weekly had been harmful as its consequence was the undermining of inter-ethnic relations in Croatia.
"Both are down, both are down!" was an exclamation by a Croatian soldier at the sight of two Yugoslav fighter jets downed over the coastal city of Sibenik during the war of independence in 1991. The weekly, published by the Serb National Council in Croatia, used this well-known exclamation in a comment on the recent crash of the two Croatian military planes during an exercise.
The cover, which was first published three weeks ago and repeated a week later, ignited strong reactions.
"I do not think that the publication of such cover was a hate speech, but I think that it was a harmful act by a newspaper as its obvious consequence was undermining the Croatian-Serb relations. We could judge it from reactions. What for?" he said.
He said that it was unfair to link criticism of the cover with the freedom of media.
"The fact that the cover was repeated a week after proves that the freedom of media has not been jeopardised," he said stressing that the cover undermined something on which he and many other people are working hard, referring to the building of good inter-ethnic relations in Croatia.
Many destinies are connected with this and therefore I have the right to point out when something harmful appears, the president said.
As regards the return of former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader to the politics and the activation of his parliamentary mandate as an independent MP after the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) expelled him this January, President Josipovic said that too much attention had been attached to where Sanader would sit in the national parliament and why he had come back after his sudden resignation as the Prime Minister in July 2009.
"Croatia has its serious problems to deal with and they do not depend on the former premier or on some similar cases," Josipovic said.