Ljajić enters Operation Storm dispute

Croatia’s president and prime minister are resuming their confrontational policy over Operation Storm, says Rasim Ljajić.

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Tuesday, 05.08.2008.

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Croatia’s president and prime minister are resuming their confrontational policy over Operation Storm, says Rasim Ljajic. “The statements by the Croatian president [Stjepan Mesic] and prime minister [Ivo Sanader] do not sound too encouraging, and it could be said that they represent the continuation of a policy of confrontation, and they do not help reestablish reconciliation and good neighborly relations between Belgrade and Zagreb,” the labor and social affairs minister told FOX TV. Ljajic enters Operation Storm dispute Serbian President Boris Tadic earlier said that he expected an apology from Croatia for crimes against and the persecution of Serbs from Krajina during the operation, when around 200,000 Serbs were forced to flee Croatia. Mesic responded to Tadic’s statement by saying that war had been imposed on Croatia, and added that Tadic should “bear in mind that the rebellion of Serbs in Croatia was instigated by Belgrade, from where the volunteers and tanks adorned in flowers were sent to Croatian soil.” Sanader said that Storm had been a just and legitimate defensive action by the Croatian armed forces, and that he would never allow anyone to cast a shadow over that operation, even for internal Serbian reasons. Ljajic added that Serbia would not give up on resolving the refugee issue in a diplomatic and civilized manner, and that Serbia’s leadership would call for the issue to be addressed within the framework of the Sarajevo Declaration. The Sarajevo document also stipulates that international institutions should take a certain role in settling that issue, and the minister added that this was the “way for us to send a clear message that not only are we not satisfied with the Sarajevo Declaration, but that we would also insist on this issue being resolved at all international forums.” The Sarajevo Declaration was signed on January 31, 2005, and stipulated that the issue of displaced persons throughout the territory of the former Yugoslavia should be resolved by the end of 2006. The document was signed with the patronage of the international community— the OSCE, the UNHCR, and the European Commission. Rasim Ljajic (FoNet, archive)

Ljajić enters Operation Storm dispute

Serbian President Boris Tadić earlier said that he expected an apology from Croatia for crimes against and the persecution of Serbs from Krajina during the operation, when around 200,000 Serbs were forced to flee Croatia.

Mesić responded to Tadić’s statement by saying that war had been imposed on Croatia, and added that Tadić should “bear in mind that the rebellion of Serbs in Croatia was instigated by Belgrade, from where the volunteers and tanks adorned in flowers were sent to Croatian soil.”

Sanader said that Storm had been a just and legitimate defensive action by the Croatian armed forces, and that he would never allow anyone to cast a shadow over that operation, even for internal Serbian reasons.

Ljajić added that Serbia would not give up on resolving the refugee issue in a diplomatic and civilized manner, and that Serbia’s leadership would call for the issue to be addressed within the framework of the Sarajevo Declaration.

The Sarajevo document also stipulates that international institutions should take a certain role in settling that issue, and the minister added that this was the “way for us to send a clear message that not only are we not satisfied with the Sarajevo Declaration, but that we would also insist on this issue being resolved at all international forums.”

The Sarajevo Declaration was signed on January 31, 2005, and stipulated that the issue of displaced persons throughout the territory of the former Yugoslavia should be resolved by the end of 2006. The document was signed with the patronage of the international community— the OSCE, the UNHCR, and the European Commission.

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