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Croatian scientists are angry because they believe that Dragan Primorac, their science minister, is getting school teachers to promote the view that Croats are only distantly related to other Slavic populations such as Serbs. The claim that there are racial differences between Croats and Slavs is not accepted by geneticists and is potentially incendiary in the Balkan region, recently torn apart by civil war. Primorac, however, denies the claim.

More than 250 scientists inside and outside Croatia have signed a petition calling for more transparency in the country's funding of science and technology. In particular, the petition calls for an investigation into a technology-development grant issued two years ago to Dragan Primorac, now the country's science minister.

\"One of the most disgraceful decisions in Croatia's recent history was the division of the Croats in Bosnia-Hercegovina into two HDZ parties. Unfortunately, that division was instigated in Zagreb,\" [Dragan Primorac] said after laying a wreath and lighting a candle in front of a monument to Croatian soldiers in Mostar.

Earlier on Friday, [Dragan Primorac] met Bosnian Federation Education Minister Zijad Pasic and Civil Affairs Minister Safet Halilovic in Sarajevo. \"Halilovic and Pasic assured me that the equality of all three constituent peoples of Bosnia-Hercegovina, including Croats, will be respected in all education programmes,\" the Croatian minister said.

Answering an inquiry from [HINA] on [Dragan Primorac]'s presidential candidacy, HDZ spokesperson Suncana Glavak said that the party's statute applied to all party members alike, including Primorac, and that under the relevant article of the HDZ Statute, an HDZ member ceases to be a member of the party, among other reasons, if they announce their candidacy for elections without prior consent of the party\".

[Announcer] And while we can only continue to speculate about changes in the new coalition government, which the Assembly should confirm on Monday [6 July], we have found out that one name is certain. The successor to Dragan Primorac for the post of new minister of science, education and sport will be Radovan Fuchs, who confirmed it to Suncica Findak. [Reporter to Fuchs] Dr Fuchs, can we ask a question?

Dragan Primorac will be going to Croatia next week to use molecular biology tools to identify the dead in mass graves. Primorac will use a $150,000 DNA sequencer donated by Perkin Elmer to identify the dead.

Zagreb, 23 November: Croatian Science, Sports and Education Minister Dragan Primorac and Israeli Ambassador to Croatia Shmuel Meirom in Zagreb on Friday signed an implementation programme of cooperation in science and technology, regulating the establishment of a joint fund that will finance joint research projects.

[Dragan Primorac] said the research indicated the presence of a strong DNA marker among Croats. \"Croats should not be traditionally classified among Slav nations because besides Croats, such a high percent of the marker exists only among the Germans and Lapps.\" Lapps was a reference to the indigenous Sami people living in Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia. \"We studied some 250-260 blood samples of Croat men, targeting the research on the specific group of genetic markers within the DNA that date 22,000 years back into human history,\" Primorac told media in Belgrade. The research produced a \"clear genetic particularity of Croats.\" Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a substance present in living organisms that carries genetic information stored within chromosomes, a thread-like structure of nucleic acids and protein. [Franjo Tudjman] often claimed that Croats are the oldest nation in the Balkans. Serbian propaganda machinery hit back with studies that tried to prove that Serbs were the region's oldest nation. They were bitter rivals during World War II, with a Croatian fascist regime allied with the Nazis and the Serbs with the West.