Korkeakivi said he expected to learn at the seminar that Croatia's authorities were continuing dialogue in this field with the CoE, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and other international organisations.
He said every instance of inter-ethnic hatred and intolerance should be reported, that returnees holding tenancy rights should be treated properly, and that minorities should be fairly represented in bodies of local and regional self-government.
Korkeakivi also said he expected to learn at the seminar about the exercise of minorities' right to use their own languages.
Addressing the seminar, which pooled about 30 participants, Serb minority representative Milorad Pupovac commented on the problems of gaining citizenship and tenancy rights.
"Unfortunately, we have cases where representatives of state bodies, the army and the police are the ones who seized others' property. We understand that this was possible in war circumstances but now it is unacceptable. Mechanisms of the rule of law should resolve this issue," Pupovac said.
He added there was no minority policy without the social, economic and legal reform of units of local self-government.
Speaking of hate speak, Pupovac said Croatia had made an important step forward by amending the criminal code to stipulate punishment for such cases. He added that politicians had renounced hate speak but that some national media spread it.
The chief of the parliamentary Committee on Human and National Minorities Rights, Furio Radin, said bilingualism was not honoured in the judiciary, although the law on the use of national minorities' languages stipulates that proceedings must be bilingual in bilingual towns and municipalities if a party requests so.
The seminar was also addressed by the chief of the Office for National Minorities, Milena Klajner, and the Council for National Minorities, Aleksandar Tolnauer.