The Croatian government has no intention of dropping the genocide charges against Serbia, Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor stated, commenting on the additional arguments which Serbia filed to the International Court of Justice in The Hague regarding the genocide committed against Serbs.

We have no intention of dropping the charges and the government headed by the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) will not withdraw them, Kosor underscored in a statement posted on the government's website after the Croatian media reported the statement by Serbian State Secretary for Justice Slobodan Homen and the Serbian government's stand that the best way to resolve the issue is by mutual withdrawal of charges.

Kosor noted that only the government has the authority to withdraw the charges and that she personally never revised or discussed this issue.

However, she added that this in no way calls into question the talks on other matters, and underscored that the most important unresolved issue refers to prisoners and missing persons, the key to which lies in the documents of the Yugoslav People's Army.

On January 4, 2010, Serbia's legal representatives filed the charges against Croatia for the genocide committed against Serbs during the 1991-1995 conflicts, and by this move, the Serbian government responded to the genocide charges Croatia filed in July 1999.