Speaking on Croatian Radio, Pusic said the prime minister should invite the Initiative's representatives to talks because he "is an institution and the whole thing boils down to recognising institutions."
She reiterated that "we should talk also when we disagree" and warned that the the removal of Cyrillic signs from public buildings in Vukovar and Udbina was "very dangerous."
"Croatian society has started recovering from the 90s war. We have made many steps forward as a society which can function with diversities... but this kind of activity, inciting to break the law in order to drastically let minorities know, all minorities, that there are aggressive groups which want to deny them a right guaranteed by law, this is dangerous and should not be disregarded lightly."
"The situation is quite dangerous and delicate," Pusic said, describing it as "a sort of blow by the past to Croatia's present." She was confident that a majority in Croatia no longer wanted to discriminate on ethnic grounds, but said small and aggressive groups were "striking at our future."
She said this issue began with the introduction of the constitutional law on national minorities and that the way out was in talks, but not only between representatives of the Initiative for the Defence of Croatian Vukovar and the government, who she said communicated through the media. She added that intellectual elites, parties, nongovernmental organisations and others should also have their say.
Asked about the position of the strongest opposition HDZ party and accusations that it was causing chaos with the issue of Cyrillic signs, Pusic reiterated that she had no proof of that but that "it's strange where all this intensity is coming from." She recalled that the HDZ took part in the adoption of a law on the introduction of Cyrillic in Vukovar, and regretted that Vukovar was "repeatedly... being used for its tragic history."
"Vukovar and its residents have the right to reverence... and everything that gives a chance for tomorrow."
Pusic said Croatia need not worry about the message it was sending to the European Union because of the issue of Cyrillic in Vukovar, and that she was "more worried about the message that is being sent... to our citizens."
She went on to say that Serbia should not use the issue of the Cyrillic script as an argument in its relations with Croatia. "The Croatian authorities actually insist on law enforcement and minority protection and if anything, I expect our neighbours' support." She recalled that Zagreb received an official note over "the events in the streets", which she said was "absurd" because "the government and official institutions were attacked for protecting minority rights."
Asked about the issue of the Croatian oil and gas company INA and Hungary's MOL and Croatian-Hungarian relations, Pusic said it was good that negotiations on the INA-MOL relationship had begun and that the relations between the two countries "have always been very good" and that "the two sides understand that those relations should not be sacrificed."
Pusic said Slovenian-Croatian relations were developing well and announced that she would meet with Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec in early November.
Asked to comment on the grade of 2.2 out of 5 which citizens recently gave the government, she said the government "must produce results" because people were less and less patient. She said the first thing the government must tackle was unemployment and investments.
The struggle for investments is paramount, regionally and globally as well, she said, adding that the only way was to create comparative advantages, simplify doing business and step up the work of institutions.
She said it was perhaps better that some public service companies remained under state control, but that "the government and the state are not entrepreneurs." The main difficulty, she added, is the lack of a "more agile management, a management elite."