Croatian president: Croatia is no aggressor but Serbia is

Croatia "was not an aggressor," Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic said in Zagreb on Thursday, Beta reported.

Instead, Grabar-Kitarovic continued, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) were "attacked by Milosevic's Serbia" and "the so-called JNA (Yugoslav People's Army)" - and these, according to her, are "notorious facts."

"Croatia did not attack anyone," the president said.

Her comments came a day after the Hague Tribunal sentenced six wartime leaders of Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina to a total of 111 years in prison for the crimes committed against the Muslims, and ruled that Croatia's leadership from the 1990s era was participating in a joint criminal enterprise.

"As Croatia's president, my clear and unequivocal message is that yesterday in The Hague, judgment was not being passed against Croatia or the Croatian people. Croatia is not an aggressor...