Croatian President: The Act on Thaci is a way to fail the region, but I can't offer guarantees

This is impossible, I cannot provide such guarantees because this is not my competence”, he has said, answering journalists' questions during the visit to the Croatian town of Sisak.

He has commemorated that during the prosecution against Thaci, he had stated that for that indictment, everything bad “thinks”. He has estimated that the indictment against Thaci is a way to defeat the region.

Now somebody on the Belgrade Cavalry will probably get me big, but I'm not an enemy of Serbs, neither have I been, nor will I ever be. I just think it's harmful. Thaci has had to be accused or told he had been left alone because some people from Belgrade easily pass (unintended)”, Milanvic said.

He is convinced that Thaci will likely reach old age in front of the tribunal due to untested “charges in the Council of Europe's report on the organ trafficking claim.

In that sense, I think this is damaging, but I haven't offered any guarantees, nor can I. This is just impossible. Even if I had said so, it's impossible for me to do this”, Milanvic said.

He has added that Croatia would not do what Hungary has done, as a member of the EU, to provide asylum to former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who had fled to Hungary, in order to avoid a two-year prison sentence due to corruption.

The Special Court in The Hague for investigating crimes committed during the Kosovo war in October last year confirmed the indictment against Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veselini, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi, in doubt of committing war crimes in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999. All of them have been in custody at The Hague since November last year. / REL