Croatia will insist on expansion of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indictment against Ratko Mladic to include war crimes committed in Croatia as well, Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said Friday.

Kosor said that Croatia was drawing up a conclusion for the government session in the week to follow by which it would encourage the Chief State Prosecutor's Office, an independent body, to once again send all collected documentation together with a request to expand the indictment to the ICTY chief prosecutor, so that Mladic could be called to account for crimes committed in Croatia.

The Croatian judiciary has carried out several proceedings against Mladic during the war in Croatia when he was the head of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) 9th corps in Knin.

The County Court in Sibenik has sentenced Mladic in absentia to 20 years in jail for the attack on the village of Kijevo in 1991, the Croatian media report, adding that Mladic was also accused of attacks on civilian targets along the coast, including Sibenik and Zadar, as well as of the shelling of Pozega (eastern Croatia) from Bosnia and of ordering the destruction of the Peruca dam and hydropower plant in the Split-Dalmatia County.

ICTY Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz has said that his office is not planning to expand the indictment against Ratko Mladic to include crimes committed in Croatia, including atrocities in Skabrnja in November 1991.