Command responsibility, Mesic said, "means the responsibility of the person who either has ordered [crimes], or has known of them and has not tried to prevent them, or has been advised of them but has failed to punish their perpetrators." He said that the indictment against former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic also rested on this principle, adding that in observance of the constitutional law obliging every Croat citizen to co-operate with the UN tribunal, he himself would testify at Milosevic's trial in The Hague.
Komandna odgovornost, rekao je Mesić, «podrazumeva odgovornost lica koje je ili naredilo [zločine], ili znalo za njih i nije pokušalo da ih spreči, ili je bilo obavešteno o njima, ali nije kaznilo počinioce». On je rekao da se optužnica protiv bivšeg jugoslovenskog predsednika Slobodana Miloševića takođe zasniva na ovom principu, dodavši da će u skladu sa ustavnim zakonom koji obavezuje svakog hrvatskog građanina da sarađuje sa Tribunalom UN-a, i on sam svedočiti na suđenju Miloševiću u Hagu.