Croatian President Zoran Milanović criticized today the way in which Croatia became a co-sponsor Resolutions on Srebrenica in the General Assembly of the United Nations, adding that the content of that text is not disputed, but it is disputed that everything was done behind his back.
"The way Croatia approached it is unconstitutional, and the other thing is that the content of that resolution is indisputable to me in principle, I would support it," Milanović said.
"It was made behind my back, therefore, without consultation, without discussion, without information." "Croatian permanent representative in New York, a diplomatic official, did it on the orders of the formally Minister of Foreign Affairs, but actually the Prime Minister, Andrej Plenković," said Milanović.
He added that he did not discuss the Resolution, which Croatia co-sponsored and voted for, with the Prime Minister in advance, even though these are decisions that, according to the Constitution, cannot be made without the President.
Facing the past
Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Gordan Grlić Radman assessed that the reaction of the leaders of Serbia to the Resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica shows that they are far from facing their past.
"The resolution does not declare any people to be genocidal, because legally nothing has changed with it, except that the UN has committed itself to commemorate that crime," Grlić Radman said.
This resolution seeks to contribute to ensuring that the genocide is never repeated anywhere, Grlić Radman said, and reminded of the decisions of international courts that a genocide took place in Srebrenica, but that Serbia did not prevent that crime from happening, nor did it punish its perpetrators.