Leopard print on the T-shirt and a gold belt made of leather Jelena Milic, during the official presentation of credentials with the President of Croatia, already in 2022 indicated that her diplomatic activity with her neighbors will be noticed - but not in a positive sense.
On March 25, after only two and a half years of his mandate as ambassador, Milić suddenly canceled, and she left behind not only tasteless outfits, but also similar statements and actions.
Performance during the Christmas reception
The Croatian media wrote about her widely in January, when demonstratively left the traditional Christmas reception of the Serbian National Council, because she was not satisfied with the applause of the hosts who accompanied the allegation of Fr student support who are protesting in Serbia, and were presented in the letter of the winner of the SNV award for the improvement of Croatian-Serbian relations.
"To be completely clear, I left because part of the SNV officials applauded a part of the letter that I don't want to censor and that is not my job, but I am the ambassador of Serbia in Croatia. So, the leadership of the SNV applauded the part of the letter that mentions support for young people in Serbia. Unfortunately, a large part of those young people consider my state leadership to be murderers and have bloody hands," said Milić in Zagreb in a statement to Croatian media reporters.
She said that she reacted "to a flagrant insult to the state" and that any other ambassador would have reacted the same way.
The winners of the award, the writer Jasminka Petrović and the director Radivoj Andrić, who are connected by the book and the film "The Summer When I Learned to Fly" about the consequences of war in the lives of the members of a once large and vital Croatian-Serbian family, could not come to the reception due to previously undertaken obligations, but in a letter they thanked children, readers and young people, as well as SNV for recognizing the message of forgiveness and reconciliation.
"Thank you to the children throughout the region who see further and more beautiful than us. And thank you to the young people in Serbia who are teaching us these days how to fly and how to shine," they wrote in the letter.
The ambassador of Serbia in Croatia said that part of the letter "too clearly refers to the current demonstrations".
She then said that she was "one of the leaders of the non-violent resistance movement against Milosevic" and that she knew what non-violent methods of struggle and dictatorial regimes were.
Director Radivoj Andric he told "Vreme" at the time that "sometimes we have to work despite our politicians from both sides".
"By God, that's the artist's duty," he added.
Another exit from the event
Jelena Milic is demonstratively left the conference on national protection systems the Croatian national minority in Serbia and the Serbian national minority in Croatia which was held in Zagreb in the second half of March.
"What do you think is not Thompson as such, but the state's support for Thompson's concerts. You nicely note that young people do not know what the Ustasha is, but also in Croatia, Nino Raspudić cites research about the fact that young people have no idea why Thompson is a problem. We also have a gathering where one of the most frequent commentators on current topics, not history, Hrvoje Klasić, says that he came to that gathering, but that he has no idea what Thompson is actually singing about in his new song 'If you don't know what happened,'" said Milić, sitting in the front row of the audience.
She said that in that song, among other things, Thompson sings about "how Croatia has not faced its crimes somewhere".
She assessed that the situation is "really very dangerous" and that it is time for "individuals from Croatia who are causing problems in Serbia to be named" and that this is "in no way hate speech spread by the state leadership of the Republic of Serbia", Milić said.
Milić reacted to the statement of Jasna Vojnić, a representative of the Croatian minority in Serbia, the president of the Croatian National Council in Serbia and a member of the Croatian Parliament, that "Serbia's state leadership is spreading hate speech against the Croatian community in that country", reports the Croatian portal Index.
Another shout-out
She also caused controversy in February this year when she appeared at a forum in Zagreb called "Thompson uber Alles", organized by the Serbian business association "Privrednik".
Croatian media reported that among the participants were civic activist Zoran Pusić, MP Nino Raspudić and historian Hrvoje Klasić, and that the debate was peaceful until Jelena Milić spoke up. She shouted from the audience with the guests and the moderator of the discussion about the controversial singer Marko Perković Thompson, repeating, among other things, that Serbia is better at dealing with the past than Croatia.
Source: Vreme/Beta
