Stjepan Mesic — Statesman born on December 24, 1934,

Stjepan "Stipe" Mesić is a Croatian politician who served as the second President of Croatia from 2000 to 2010. Before serving two five-year terms as president, he was the 1st Prime Minister of Croatia after multi-party elections, the last President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia and consequently Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement, as well as Speaker of the Croatian Parliament, a judge in Našice and mayor of his home town of Orahovica... (wikipedia)

He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too.
The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.
Croatia did not want Europe to be divided as to the start of Croatia's EU entry talks.
The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.
We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia - countries that are now in transition and must cooperate with each other, because our economies depend on each other.