Asked by the press if it was correct that she did not know that the indictments arrived on August 10, when Justice Minister Drazen Bosnjakovic received them, Kosor said that as prime minister, she found out about the indictments at the same time as the press, from the media.

Kosor said she immediately convened a meeting at which it was agreed to take concrete steps and pass a law declaring null and void certain legal documents issued by the judicial bodies of the former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), the former Yugoslavia, and Serbia.

"We will thus send a clear message that it's been enough of that and that it's intolerable to expect more indictments against Croatian war veterans who defended Croatia and Vukovar and who were mainly victims of Serbian concentration camps, only to receive indictments against them in 2011," Kosor said after unveiling a monument at a mass grave site near the Plitvice Lakes.

The Justice Ministry said today that Kosor did not know about the indictments which it received on August 10, processed on September 14 and forwarded to relevant municipal courts for serving the next day.

A member of the press asked Kosor if it was common for a politician to sue a politician over a debate in parliament. She said her HDZ party had sued Zeljko Jovanovic of the opposition Social Democrats (SDP) and that she had nothing to add, other that neither she nor the HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) "are afraid of Zeljko Jovanovic or those like him, whose only programme is hatred."

Asked if a response had arrived from Brussels regarding the Hungarian oil company MOL, Kosor said it had not, as the English translation of amendments to the law on the privatisation of Croatia's oil company INA, of which MOL is the majority owner, and her letter to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on the matter were only recently sent to Brussels.

"We are expecting an answer. The reactions are good because, as a country which will soon become a member of the European Union, we feel that we must agree on everything. I believe Brussels will acknowledge that the protection of national interests and the fight against corruption are in the foundations of every state," Kosor said, adding that those were also the foundations of the EU and its acquis communautaire.

Kosor expects talks to be held on the matter, to include Croatian legal and energy experts, saying that if necessary, she and her cabinet would also attend.

Asked when Croatia would buy new aircraft and with what money, she said the HDZ's platform for the upcoming parliamentary election envisaged the strengthening of the Croatian Air Force.