Milosevic said he met the three-man crew, who told him they were arrested as they were leaving the village after the police told them they were in a danger zone.
The police treated them properly and released them after an hour, without taking their equipment, the ambassador said, adding that the crew on Wednesday resumed shooting in Tetovo and in Ohrid today.
According to the head of the Macedonian interior minister's office, Goran Pavlovski, the Croatian crew was arrested to check if they had sojourn and shooting permits and was released after it was established that they had the required papers.
Pavlovski said that foreign reporters coming to Kondovo sometimes had a hidden agenda and that recently a group of Albanian reporters was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in jail after it was established that they were doing intelligence work.
Macedonian reporters are not allowed in the village, where last autumn the commander of rebel Macedonian Albanians in 2001, Agim Krasniqi, and his armed group threatened with destabilising Macedonia again. He left Kondovo thanks to an intervention by the international community and Albanian parties' leaders. Macedonian media said that he returned to the village with an armed group this spring.