Draskovic's Serbian Renewal Movement party described operations Flash and Storm in a statement yesterday as "a crime of ethnic cleansing" and that there were "neither human nor state reasons to celebrate that crime".
The Croatian ministry said such statements were contrary to the efforts of Croatia and Serbia since the 1996 signing of an agreement on the normalisation of relations to advance bilateral relations in the interest of spreading Euro-Atlantic integration and values in this part of Europe.
The press release said Croatia expected Serbia's leadership to distance itself from the policy of Greater Serbia hegemony and territorial aspirations towards other countries and peoples.
The ministry said that Serbia would thus prove its renunciation of the heritage of former President Slobodan Milosevic's failed regime.
It added that Draskovic's statements brought into question his earlier opposition to the Milosevic regime.
The ministry also criticised senior SCG officials's political interpretations on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Storm, describing them as unfounded and one-sided historical revisionism which tried to suppress the facts and the truth about events in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
The ministry said Croatia felt it was necessary to step up efforts to maintain and advance the level of bilateral relations in the interest of the stability and progress of Southeast Europe, in the spirit of the European Union's 2003 Thessaloniki declaration.
The ministry underlined the importance of Croatia-SCG relations for the stability and safety of the region.
It rejected political debates about events from the recent past and said there was no alternative to the normalisation of Croatia-SCG relations and good neighbourly relations based on equality and cooperation.