"I take this opportunity to congratulate Angela Merkel on an excellent election result. She has said before that she will come to Croatia after the election and she is certainly very welcome. Since she was preoccupied with her election campaign, she may have not seen that Croatia has aligned itself with its commitments," Pusic said in New York where she was attending the autumn session of the UN General Assembly.

"I think we have resolved that matter and it will be seen in the coming days that it has been resolved," Pusic said.

The minister commented on an article in Novi List daily on the shift in the position of her HNS party on amending the Constitution. "It's a matter of wording, meaning that it would not be just political murders that would be covered, but all serious murders," she said, adding that she and the party leadership had heard arguments from the prime minister and other ministers and decided that those arguments made sense and they would support them.