If Croats want diplomatic war, they'll have it - Serbian FM
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says his country's policy toward Croatia will be based on the principle of reciprocity going forward.
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"I hope that reason will prevail and that we will continue on the path of good-neighborly cooperation, the route set out by presidents Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic and Aleksandar Vucic. But if they want a diplomatic war, they'll have a diplomatic war," he told the tabloid Informer in an interview.
In the article, published under the headline, "If Croats want war, well they'll have war!," Dacic recalled that Croatia first declared Serbian Defense Minister a persona non grata, to which Serbia responded with the same measure against Croata's defense minister, acting on the principle of reciprocity.
"Reciprocal measure are customary practice in diplomacy. This is done everywhere. Of course, we're not pleased with this, but we are forced to do it. We are merely reacting, responding to their moves. If there are new hostile moves taken by authorities in Zagreb, we are ready to react," Dacic said.
The minister described reciprocity as "the mother of diplomacy," and observed that US and Russian presidents "do the same."
As for the possibility of Croatia slowing down Serbia's EU path, Dacic said it was "not certain Zagreb will in June block the opening of new negotiating chapters with the EU."
"They tried this in the past, and it either didn't work or didn't last long," Dacic said.
War is war! If you want to talk about diplomatic war then do you want to go as far back as the 1800 when the world powers were determining what part of the ottoman empire belongs to whom? Serbia has been in a diplomatic war since its birth! Then after the fall of the ottomans and then during each WWI & II and more recently with Kosovo/a and all its neighbors since the breakup of Yugo....courtesy of Milo.
(kiko, 1 May 2018 20:11)
You have to be careful in that you mention 2 major global wars and a long term occupation. You can't compare what happened in the Balkans in the 90's for a few years to the three you mentioned in your statement.
(ChiTown, 2 May 2018 03:00)
War is war! If you want to talk about diplomatic war then do you want to go as far back as the 1800 when the world powers were determining what part of the ottoman empire belongs to whom? Serbia has been in a diplomatic war since its birth! Then after the fall of the ottomans and then during each WWI & II and more recently with Kosovo/a and all its neighbors since the breakup of Yugo....courtesy of Milo.
(kiko, 1 May 2018 20:11)
@(Lenard, 30 April 2018 19:25)
Seriously Lenny you Croats have no shame about publicly parading your heroism at Jasenovac. Absolutely disgraceful.
(bacon and eggs, 1 May 2018 07:11)
As world leaders gathered for the opening of the Holocaust Memorial Museum here, Holocaust historians and survivors today condemned an invitation to the President of Croatia, Franjo Tudjman
(Jugoslavija, 30 April 2018 22:08)
Franjo Tudjman has been dead since the last century! You might want to join the rest of the world in the 21st century, dear...
(icj1, 1 May 2018 04:02)
e." Didn't Saddam Hussein of Baghdad say also "mother of all battles". Just before he got creamed then was hiding in a stinking hole like a hermit.
(Lenard, 30 April 2018 19:25)
You must be talking about Kolinda who is following Tudjman's Holocaust revisionism about the Jewish and Serbian Holocaust while celebrating the Ustase in places like Blieburg where they mere mowed down like pigs.
As world leaders gathered for the opening of the Holocaust Memorial Museum here, Holocaust historians and survivors today condemned an invitation to the President of Croatia, Franjo Tudjman, who has been accused of writing that estimates of six million Jewish dead were inflated and that Jews were among those running a Croatian concentration camp.
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(Jugoslavija, 30 April 2018 22:08)
The minister described reciprocity as "the mother of diplomacy," and observed that US and Russian presidents "do the same." Didn't Saddam Hussein of Baghdad say also "mother of all battles". Just before he got creamed then was hiding in a stinking hole like a hermit. Until Americans dug him out of his hole unshaven smelling to high heaven then hanged him. Russia didn't even help him as one of there best client states. I guess Serbia is heading down its proverbial losing path ways as usual. Non less Serbs can have a another loser holiday they are so fond of celebrating. Why ruin the perfect record, woes us Serbs.
(Lenard, 30 April 2018 19:25)
why is Serbia always talking about "WAR" since the '80's? And then points a finger at others who don't even have an army. Hilarious!
(kiko, 30 April 2018 17:45)
Kiko, it's a "Diplomatic War".... there's a difference!
(ChiTown, 30 April 2018 19:03)
why is Serbia always talking about "WAR" since the '80's? And then points a finger at others who don't even have an army. Hilarious!
(kiko, 30 April 2018 17:45)
The minister described reciprocity as "the mother of diplomacy," and observed that US and Russian presidents "do the same." Didn't Saddam Hussein of Baghdad say also "mother of all battles". Just before he got creamed then was hiding in a stinking hole like a hermit. Until Americans dug him out of his hole unshaven smelling to high heaven then hanged him. Russia didn't even help him as one of there best client states. I guess Serbia is heading down its proverbial losing path ways as usual. Non less Serbs can have a another loser holiday they are so fond of celebrating. Why ruin the perfect record, woes us Serbs.
(Lenard, 30 April 2018 19:25)
why is Serbia always talking about "WAR" since the '80's? And then points a finger at others who don't even have an army. Hilarious!
(kiko, 30 April 2018 17:45)
As world leaders gathered for the opening of the Holocaust Memorial Museum here, Holocaust historians and survivors today condemned an invitation to the President of Croatia, Franjo Tudjman
(Jugoslavija, 30 April 2018 22:08)
Franjo Tudjman has been dead since the last century! You might want to join the rest of the world in the 21st century, dear...
(icj1, 1 May 2018 04:02)
why is Serbia always talking about "WAR" since the '80's? And then points a finger at others who don't even have an army. Hilarious!
(kiko, 30 April 2018 17:45)
Kiko, it's a "Diplomatic War".... there's a difference!
(ChiTown, 30 April 2018 19:03)
e." Didn't Saddam Hussein of Baghdad say also "mother of all battles". Just before he got creamed then was hiding in a stinking hole like a hermit.
(Lenard, 30 April 2018 19:25)
You must be talking about Kolinda who is following Tudjman's Holocaust revisionism about the Jewish and Serbian Holocaust while celebrating the Ustase in places like Blieburg where they mere mowed down like pigs.
As world leaders gathered for the opening of the Holocaust Memorial Museum here, Holocaust historians and survivors today condemned an invitation to the President of Croatia, Franjo Tudjman, who has been accused of writing that estimates of six million Jewish dead were inflated and that Jews were among those running a Croatian concentration camp.
[link]
(Jugoslavija, 30 April 2018 22:08)
War is war! If you want to talk about diplomatic war then do you want to go as far back as the 1800 when the world powers were determining what part of the ottoman empire belongs to whom? Serbia has been in a diplomatic war since its birth! Then after the fall of the ottomans and then during each WWI & II and more recently with Kosovo/a and all its neighbors since the breakup of Yugo....courtesy of Milo.
(kiko, 1 May 2018 20:11)
@(Lenard, 30 April 2018 19:25)
Seriously Lenny you Croats have no shame about publicly parading your heroism at Jasenovac. Absolutely disgraceful.
(bacon and eggs, 1 May 2018 07:11)
War is war! If you want to talk about diplomatic war then do you want to go as far back as the 1800 when the world powers were determining what part of the ottoman empire belongs to whom? Serbia has been in a diplomatic war since its birth! Then after the fall of the ottomans and then during each WWI & II and more recently with Kosovo/a and all its neighbors since the breakup of Yugo....courtesy of Milo.
(kiko, 1 May 2018 20:11)
You have to be careful in that you mention 2 major global wars and a long term occupation. You can't compare what happened in the Balkans in the 90's for a few years to the three you mentioned in your statement.
(ChiTown, 2 May 2018 03:00)
why is Serbia always talking about "WAR" since the '80's? And then points a finger at others who don't even have an army. Hilarious!
(kiko, 30 April 2018 17:45)
Kiko, it's a "Diplomatic War".... there's a difference!
(ChiTown, 30 April 2018 19:03)
@(Lenard, 30 April 2018 19:25)
Seriously Lenny you Croats have no shame about publicly parading your heroism at Jasenovac. Absolutely disgraceful.
(bacon and eggs, 1 May 2018 07:11)
e." Didn't Saddam Hussein of Baghdad say also "mother of all battles". Just before he got creamed then was hiding in a stinking hole like a hermit.
(Lenard, 30 April 2018 19:25)
You must be talking about Kolinda who is following Tudjman's Holocaust revisionism about the Jewish and Serbian Holocaust while celebrating the Ustase in places like Blieburg where they mere mowed down like pigs.
As world leaders gathered for the opening of the Holocaust Memorial Museum here, Holocaust historians and survivors today condemned an invitation to the President of Croatia, Franjo Tudjman, who has been accused of writing that estimates of six million Jewish dead were inflated and that Jews were among those running a Croatian concentration camp.
[link]
(Jugoslavija, 30 April 2018 22:08)
The minister described reciprocity as "the mother of diplomacy," and observed that US and Russian presidents "do the same." Didn't Saddam Hussein of Baghdad say also "mother of all battles". Just before he got creamed then was hiding in a stinking hole like a hermit. Until Americans dug him out of his hole unshaven smelling to high heaven then hanged him. Russia didn't even help him as one of there best client states. I guess Serbia is heading down its proverbial losing path ways as usual. Non less Serbs can have a another loser holiday they are so fond of celebrating. Why ruin the perfect record, woes us Serbs.
(Lenard, 30 April 2018 19:25)
why is Serbia always talking about "WAR" since the '80's? And then points a finger at others who don't even have an army. Hilarious!
(kiko, 30 April 2018 17:45)
War is war! If you want to talk about diplomatic war then do you want to go as far back as the 1800 when the world powers were determining what part of the ottoman empire belongs to whom? Serbia has been in a diplomatic war since its birth! Then after the fall of the ottomans and then during each WWI & II and more recently with Kosovo/a and all its neighbors since the breakup of Yugo....courtesy of Milo.
(kiko, 1 May 2018 20:11)
You have to be careful in that you mention 2 major global wars and a long term occupation. You can't compare what happened in the Balkans in the 90's for a few years to the three you mentioned in your statement.
(ChiTown, 2 May 2018 03:00)
As world leaders gathered for the opening of the Holocaust Memorial Museum here, Holocaust historians and survivors today condemned an invitation to the President of Croatia, Franjo Tudjman
(Jugoslavija, 30 April 2018 22:08)
Franjo Tudjman has been dead since the last century! You might want to join the rest of the world in the 21st century, dear...
(icj1, 1 May 2018 04:02)
War is war! If you want to talk about diplomatic war then do you want to go as far back as the 1800 when the world powers were determining what part of the ottoman empire belongs to whom? Serbia has been in a diplomatic war since its birth! Then after the fall of the ottomans and then during each WWI & II and more recently with Kosovo/a and all its neighbors since the breakup of Yugo....courtesy of Milo.
(kiko, 1 May 2018 20:11)