"A parliamentary inquiry commission needs to be appointed to establish Mesic's responsibility for the illegal handover and publication of the Brijuni transcripts," Djapic said at a press conference in the coastal city of Zadar, presenting the conclusions of the HSP Presidency following Friday's announcement of a guilty verdict by the Hague tribunal against Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac.

The tribunal's trial chamber sentenced Gotovina and Markac to 24 and 18 years' imprisonment for their roles in a joint criminal enterprise during a Croatian military offensive known as Operation Storm, launched on 4 August 1995. A meeting of President Franjo Tudjman and military commanders on the island of Brijuni on 31 July 1995 was taken as the key evidence of the existence of the joint criminal enterprise, which was allegedly aimed at expelling the Serb population from occupied areas of Croatia.

The government should immediately terminate all negotiations on Croatia's entry into the EU and, since the EU countries support the work of the Hague tribunal, it should withdraw the Croatian ambassadors from those countries for consultations and invite the EU ambassadors in Zagreb for talks, Djapic said.

The law granting a general amnesty to the Serbs who participated in the rebellion against Croatia should be abolished, and the Croatian parliament should pass a resolution releasing Croatian soldiers who are in pre-trial custody or in prison for war crimes committed during the 1991-1995 Homeland War, he added.

The HSP also wants the government to request a special session of the UN Security Council and to declare an exclusive economic zone in the Croatian Adriatic.