The authorities of Croatia banned President of Serbia Alexandar Vuchich to visit a memorial complex in a private order on the site of the Yasenovats concentration camp. The Prime Minister of Serbia Ana Brnabich called this decision “The biggest scandal between Serbia and Croatia is in recent history.”
According to the Croatian edition of Jutarnji with reference to sources close to the government, Aleksandar Vucic wanted to cross the border and arrive in Yasenovats, and then visit the city of Pakrats without official notification and without coordination with the Croatian embassy.
“He did not comply with any protocols, he wanted to do everything without procedures and rules of diplomatic relations. He wanted to cross the Croatian border with his television and do what he wanted here. But Prime Minister Pedkovich (Prime Minister Andrei Passkovich – Ed.) And the government clearly said “no”,- said the source of the publication.
“This is the same as if you forbade the President of Israel to visit Auschwitz,- commented on the decision of the Croatian authorities, Prime Minister of Serbia Ana Brnabich. This is an anti-European and anti-cyvivation decision, a gross violation of freedom of movement. I do not even analyze how much this speaks of disrespect for Serbian victims. This is the biggest scandal between Serbia and Croatia in recent history. “
The decision of the authorities of Croatia was reacted by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia Alexander Vulin. In his commentary, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that from today, “all officials of the Croatian state, all owners of official or diplomatic passports will have to separately announce and justify their visit or travel through Serbia and will be placed under the regime of special control.”
Alexander Vuchich previously said that before him in Yasenovatz there was not a single Serbian president. However, the former president of Serbia Boris Tadich was in Yasenovats in 2010. “Lies that he will be the first president who visited Jasenovats, unhealthy, because the use of victims of genocide for marketing purposes and to satisfy personal ambitions is difficult to comment on,” Tadich said Danas.
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Yasenovats is a system of concentration camps created in May 1941. According to various estimates, in Yasenovats from 83 thousand to more than 700 thousand people – hundreds of thousands of Serbs, as well as thousands of Jews and gypsies,
were killed.