Vucic: Nobody Demanded That Croatia Admits Culpability For Genocide In WWII

Aleksandar Vucic (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic stated on June 24 that, on its path to the EU, Croatia was never requested to admit the culpability for genocide against the Serbs in World War II, while that country is now demanding that Serbia recognizes the genocide in Srebrenica, where there were fewer victims "by several orders of magnitude."

Speaking at the news conference in Palace Serbia, Vucic commented on the statement of Croatian Foreign Minister Goran Grlic Radman, who said that Serbia had to recognize the genocide in Srebrenica if it wanted to become an EU member, by saying that, on its path to EU membership, "Croatia was not requested to declare a stance regarding the unquestionable (case of) genocide."

Vucic stated that "it never crossed the minds" of Croatian leaders to mention "Prebilovce, Pag, Jadovno and Jasenovac" during their EU accession process, "where there were more victims than in Srebrenica, by several orders of magnitude."

 The Serbian president dismissed the claims about Belgrade interfering with the internal policies of Montenegro, saying that the opposite was true. "They accuse me on a daily basis that I interfere with their matters, while they do nothing else but interfere. From the issues of who will own a cafe in Vracar (a quarter in Belgrade), to which policies Serbia must carry out. When we tell them that they did not interest us and that we were only asking about the rights of the Serbs, of whom there are 28 percent (in Montenegro) – not 1.8 percent, they tell us that we cannot interfere," he stated.