Commenting on the Croatian government's plan to pass a law designed to make null and void all legal documents of the prosecutorial authorities and military courts of the former Yugoslav People's Army and the former Yugoslav federation, Deputy Parliament Speaker Vladimir Seks has said that the law could not obligate Serbia to stop issuing indictments, but that it could be a way for former Yugoslav countries to exert strong pressure on Serbia to make it give up its practice.
Answering a reporter's question during a visit to the eastern town of Djakovo on Monday, Seks said the government planned to put forward the said law as early as this week and send it to parliament for consideration.
"This law is also a way of exerting pressure on the EU because Serbia's current practice of issuing indictments against Croatian veterans is outside all European legal standards," Seks said, adding that as chairman of the Parliament's Committee on the Constitution he would take part in the adoption of the law.
"It is completely intolerable that Serbia has claimed for itself the role of the world court policeman of the long and forever gone Yugoslavia," said Seks.
Commenting on the latest Serbian indictments against some 40 Croatian veterans, including himself, Seks said he would not take into his hands the indictment because it was "criminal papers".
