Kosor took the opportunity to announce once again that Croatia would pass a law whereby all indictments and rulings issued by prosecutors and courts of the former Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav People's Army in connection with the 1991-1995 war in Croatia, in which citizens of Croatia were suspected or accused of war crimes committed in the territory of Croatia, would be declared null and void.

She said the people who had launched military aggression against Croatia and lost the war were now seeking a victory through indictments, stressing that Croatia would not allow that to happen.

That war was imposed on Croatia, but despite its ferocity Croatia won, and Croatian veterans are members of a victorious army. This fact should be celebrated every day, the prime minister said.

Kosor said she regretted the fact that the government-sponsored bill on Croatian veterans and their families had not received enough support in Parliament to become a constitutional law. The bill guaranteed respect for the dignity of all Croatian veterans, their families and every child who lost their father or mother during the war, she said, adding that the government would not give up and would secure enough votes in Parliament to make it a constitutional act.

The prime minister thanked the veterans from Sibenik for answering the call from the first President of Croatia and founder of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party, Franjo Tudjman, to defend Croatia.

Kosor said that Sibenik was the right place to say that Croatia would not allow anyone to rewrite its history and that it would continue to celebrate the Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Veterans' Day.

She said that the Croatian veterans, their families and Franjo Tudjman deserved the greatest credit for the fact that Croatia had joined NATO and that it would become the 28th member of the European Union on 1 July 2013.