Asked when she would discuss the appointments with President Ivo Josipovic, Kosor said that depended on time and that she had suggested that their offices agree a time for the meeting. She reiterated that Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic would attend.

Kosor recalled that ambassadors were appointed without a problem last September.

Asked about Social Democratic Party (SDP) leader Zoran Milanovic's comments on the construction of the Peljesac Bridge and the Brijuni Rivijera tourism project, she said Milanovic had shown he was totally uninformed about the latter and that he did not know the essence of the project, which was to call an international tender.

Regarding the Peljesac Bridge, she said the project was suspended in 2009 because of lack of money, but that it was important for the local people and their economy.

Asked if Interior Minister Tomislav Karamarko would join the HDZ, Kosor said they had not talked about it, adding that joining the party was voluntary and that its door was open to anyone who shared the same positions on fundamental matters.

If Minister Karamarko wishes to join the HDZ, we will talk about it. But joining does not mean anything for anyone other that they became party members and that they must work hard, especially in election year, giving their maximum so the party can achieve an excellent result, said Kosor.

Asked if it was true that she had talked with the leader of a party in the opposition coalition who had allegedly suggested entering a coalition with the HDZ, Kosor said that in her capacity as PM, she never separated "people by party affiliation, but by project, if they are people who can help their region or Croatia as a whole." She added she was talking with many people from all political parties, including from the opposition coalition.

"I talk with many people and find it incredible that there is, I hear, an agreement that nobody should enter a coalition with the HDZ," Kosor said, adding that Milanovic had threatened Ivan Jakovcic, president of the Istrian Democratic Party (IDS), which is in the opposition coalition, not to sign with her an agreement on the Brijuni-Rivijera project, which she said would create 2,000 jobs.

"We will continue to talk. That's good and important for Croatia and we must constantly nurture an atmosphere that we can all talk with everyone," said Kosor.

Asked if there had been offers from the opposition coalition in terms of coalition potential, she said there were talks, not about Croatia's well-being but about projects.

She stressed that the HDZ's coalition potential was good.