Serbia's Foreign Ministry delivers protest note to Croatia

The Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday handed a protest note to Croatia's Ambassador in Belgrade Gordan Markotic.

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Thursday, 21.04.2016.

14:19

Serbia's Foreign Ministry delivers protest note to Croatia
(mfa.gov.rs)

Serbia's Foreign Ministry delivers protest note to Croatia

A statement issued today explained that Kovac recently described application of Serbia's laws as "a historical perversion" and implied that Serbia was "the state from which came the plans for the 1990s wars." The statement noted that such qualifications were inappropriate.

The MFA further thinks that "abstaining from such appraisals in the future from the Croatian side would contribute to improving bilateral relations and good-neighborly cooperation," and adds:

"We take this opportunity to point out to the almost daily nationalist outbursts and hate speech in the Republic of Croatia, which creates a sense of insecurity among the members of the Serb national minority - a direct consequence of the avoidance of the Republic of Croatia's competent organs to adequately sanction and publicly condemn such occurrences."

Besides, the Serbian MFA expressed particular concern over the participation of Croatian singer Marko Perkovic aka Thompson in a religious forum organized for young people in a Catholic school in Croatia's town of Sibenik, where Perkovic delivered a lecture to elementary and high school students, "along with the songs 'Cavoglava' and 'Jasenovac and Gradiska Stara', which glorify Ustashism and send threats to Serbs."

The Ustashe regime referenced in the statement was in power in the WW2-era Nazi-allied Independent State of Croatia (NDH) entity. Jasenovac was one of NDH's extermination camps for Serbs, Jews, and Roma.

The Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport is yet to make any statement regarding the Sibenik incident.

The Serbian MFA concluded that "Ambassador Markotic and representatives of the (Serbian) Ministry of Foreign Affairs agreed that, after the formation of a new government in Serbia, representatives of the two countries should meet more often in order to consider the open issues."

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