The Prime Minister of Croatia, Andrej Plenkovic, assessed as a provocation the fact that the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, called on Serbs in the region to attend the so-called The day of Serbian unity, freedom and the national flag is marked by Serbian flags.
“Such actions have no other meaning than provocation,” Plenkovic told reporters in Zagreb.
He assessed that the scars of Slobodan Milosevic’s regime in the region are “still alive” and that “every kind of this message is due to causing a negative effect”, Beta agency reported.
Plenkovic pointed out that Croatia has shown maturity and does not fall for provocations. He assessed that it is easiest to start ping-pong with fierce statements, but that nothing is achieved with that.
Plenkovic welcomed the “clear and articulated position of Milorad Pupovac and Boris Milosevic” on that issue, emphasizing that “that story is absolved” for Croatia.
The President of the Serbian National Council and MP of the Independent Democratic Serbian Party Milorad Pupovac said yesterday that Croatia has legally prescribed rules for the use of flags of other countries, which is limited for official or other business purposes and that Serbs in Croatia should respect them. He emphasized that this should be separated from the use of flags that national minorities in Croatia have as their official flags recognized by the authorities on the basis of the Constitutional Law on the Rights of National Minorities.
Pupovac explained that the Serb minority in Croatia has as its official flag the national flag of the Serbs, a tricolor without a coat of arms, which, like the Croatian flag and the EU flag, is constantly in the premises of the SNV, Klix.ba writes.
