PM: Serbia will not drop lawsuit unilaterally

PM Ivica Dačić has said that Serbia would not unilaterally drop its genocide countersuit of genocide against Croatia before the International Court of Justice.

Izvor: Tanjug

Friday, 22.11.2013.

09:38

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BELGRADE PM Ivica Dacic has said that Serbia would not unilaterally drop its genocide countersuit of genocide against Croatia before the International Court of Justice. At the same time, he stressed that Serbia "was still willing to continue the dialogue on a mutual withdrawal of the charges." PM: Serbia will not drop lawsuit unilaterally Croatian officials' statements that the two governments have not found a way to mutually drop the charges against each other are not true, because Serbia is still willing to discuss it, he told reporters in parliament on Thursday afternoon. "We are preparing for the trial as though it is going to happen, but we would be willing, for the sake of good relations between neighbors, to make further efforts towards a mutual withdrawal of the charges," Dacic noted, adding that statements like a recent one from Croatian President Ivo Josipovic indicated fear from the reaction of the public in Croatia. "I invite the Croatian government and president to move in that direction more boldly. Serbia made bold steps when it accepted the Brussels agreement. What steps have they made? That takes courage and political leadership," Dacic pointed out. Officials of the two governments have not agreed that there is no more room for talks on a mutual withdrawal of the charges, but the atmosphere in Croatia definitely does not support that, he said. Commenting on the destruction of Cyrillic signs in Croatia and recent pro-Nazi chants at a football match, he stated that Serbia had refrained from reacting to those incidents solely because it did not want to harm the relations with its neighbor. "The problem is not in the football player who chanted (the pro-Nazi war call) 'For the homeland! Ready,' but in the thousands who chanted back. That is not appropriate behavior either for a member of the EU or in terms of good relations with neighbrs. If some think we should not build good relations with neighbors or that we should have the Berlin wall instead of open borders, that they should say so," he underscored. (Tanjug) Tanjug

PM: Serbia will not drop lawsuit unilaterally

Croatian officials' statements that the two governments have not found a way to mutually drop the charges against each other are not true, because Serbia is still willing to discuss it, he told reporters in parliament on Thursday afternoon.

"We are preparing for the trial as though it is going to happen, but we would be willing, for the sake of good relations between neighbors, to make further efforts towards a mutual withdrawal of the charges," Dačić noted, adding that statements like a recent one from Croatian President Ivo Josipović indicated fear from the reaction of the public in Croatia.

"I invite the Croatian government and president to move in that direction more boldly. Serbia made bold steps when it accepted the Brussels agreement. What steps have they made? That takes courage and political leadership," Dačić pointed out.

Officials of the two governments have not agreed that there is no more room for talks on a mutual withdrawal of the charges, but the atmosphere in Croatia definitely does not support that, he said.

Commenting on the destruction of Cyrillic signs in Croatia and recent pro-Nazi chants at a football match, he stated that Serbia had refrained from reacting to those incidents solely because it did not want to harm the relations with its neighbor.

"The problem is not in the football player who chanted (the pro-Nazi war call) 'For the homeland! Ready,' but in the thousands who chanted back. That is not appropriate behavior either for a member of the EU or in terms of good relations with neighbrs. If some think we should not build good relations with neighbors or that we should have the Berlin wall instead of open borders, that they should say so," he underscored.

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