"Croatia has its own textbooks. Croatia has curricula and textbooks approved by the law and which are used in primary and secondary schools. At this moment, we do not need any additional books," Minister Primorac told Croatian reporters in Vienna just before the start of an informal meeting of European Union education ministers and their colleagues from Southeast Europe and Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Turkey.
The books which caused some controversy in the Croatian media were presented by Erhard Busek, the Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe, in Brussels on Wednesday.
"Those books can be on shelves in book-shops but cannot serve as teaching material at school," Primorac added.
As regards other topics, the minister told reporters that thanks to the European Union's intensified activities aimed at Southeast Europe, Croatia had been chosen to house the main offices of the agency the educational and reform initiatives for the region.
This is a great acknowledgement and obligation for Croatia. The informal meeting in Vienna is important for Croatia as education is one of the basic elements in Croatia's integration process with the EU, he added.