Vučić contacted Milorad Pupovac, leader of Croatia’s Serbian SDSS party, and told her he was planning a private visit to Jasenovac, where there was a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
A diplomatic scandal broke out in the Balkans. Croatia denied Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić a private visit to the Croatian cities of Jasenovac and Pakrac, then Belgrade threatened to retaliate, European Pravda reports.
According to the Croatian publication Jutarnji List, Vučić contacted Milorad Pupovac, leader of Croatia’s Serbian SDSS party, and told her he was planning a private visit to Jasenovac, where a Nazi concentration camp was located in the Second World War.
Vučić allegedly informed Pupovac that he was going on a private visit to Croatia and, if he thought it necessary, he could inform the Croatian government. The head of the SDSS allegedly informed Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic about Vučić’s trip, but it was not approved by the Zagreb official.
According to a Jutarnji List source close to the government in Zagreb, the purpose of Vučić’s visit was to provoke the Croatian side on the eve of the anniversary of the Storm military operation, so that the Serbian president could “act as a victim” for to his voters.
The storm was an operation by the Croatian army, conducted in August 1995 against the Serbian Krajina. The result of this operation was the victory of Croatia and the liquidation of the republics of Serbian Krajina and Western Bosnia.
“He didn’t follow any protocol, he wanted to do everything without the procedures and rules of diplomatic relations. He wanted to cross the Croatian border with his people on television and do whatever he wanted with it. But he clearly said. “Prime Minister Plenkovic and the government do not. The state, a member of the EU and NATO, and he cannot do what he wants here. The” Serbia peace “policy will not work in Croatia,” the publication quoted an anonymous journalist. from the Croatian government.
In Serbia, their reaction to Vučić’s refusal to visit was sharp. Thus, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic called the event “the biggest scandal in modern history” and compared it to the Israeli president’s ban on visiting Auschwitz.
Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin said that from now on all Croatian officials, all holders of official or diplomatic passports will have to separately report and justify their visit or passage to Serbia and be placed under a special control regime.
Serbian Foreign Minister Nikola Selakovic on Sunday announced that he had issued a protest note to the head of the Croatian embassy for refusing to allow Vucic and announced Belgrade’s retaliation. On the note, Serbia called the decision not to enter Vucic because of the absence of the officially agreed visit “illegal, anti-European and anti-civilization”, referring to “a gross violation of the principle of freedom of movement.”
Recall that Vucic previously said that he sees signs of a world war in the way of events in the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Source: korrespondent
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