Croatian government

ZAGREB-Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic was sworn in as Croatia's first female president in Zagreb on Sunday starting her five-year term.

Grabar Kitarovic finished the ceremonial oath of office with the phrase: "So help me God", which was followed by a thunderous applause and chanting "Croatia, Croatia".

Croatian government officials say they will  reveal the names of companies and individuals from Croatia that are among the clients with secret accounts in the Swiss branch of Britain's HSBC bank.

Grabar Kitarovic will be sworn in as president on Sunday on the St Mark's Square in Zagreb, where the Croatian government, parliament and constitutional court are located.

The candidate of the opposition centre-right Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, Grabar Kitarovic won the presidential elections in January, defeating the incumbent Ivo Josipovic.

Serbian war crimes defendant Vojislav Seselj has called Chief Hague prosecutor Serge Brammertz a 'marionette' and accused him of taking 500,000 euro as a bribe from the Croatian government.

BELGRADE - The president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia, Miodrag Linta, on Monday urged new Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarevic to demand that Zoran Milanovic's government honour the rights of ethnic Serbs that are guaranteed by the constitution, the law and international agreements signed by Croatia.

The Croatian government met one of the demands of ex-soldiers from the 1991-95 war who have been protesting for two months outside the veterans’ ministry in Zagreb.

Croatia "to condition Serbia's EU talks with new trials"

BELGRADE -- It is not a good practice to set bilateral issues as a condition in the course of the EU negotiation talks, Jadranka Joksimović has said.

BELGRADE - It is not a good practice to set bilateral issues as a condition in the course of the EU negotiation talks, Serbian Minister without portfolio in charge of European integration Jadranka Joksimovic stated in reaction to the recent statement by Croatian Minister of Justice Orsat Miljenic, Belgrade media report.

BELGRADE - President of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia Miodrag Linta has said that he agrees with Croatian President Ivo Josipovic's opinion that relations between the governments in Belgrade and Zagreb are stagnating and argues that the responsibility for this should be sought on the Croatian side.

BELGRADE - Head of the Coalition of Refugee Associations Miodrag Linta sent an open letter to Croatia's Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic on friday asking that the government ban the clearance of the ruins of Serb-owned buildings without consent from their owners.