The concert of the Podgorica KIC pop choir on Korčula, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of that Croatian island, was postponed in agreement with the Korčula Anti-Fascist Association.
The KIC pop choir announced that they have been in constant communication with the Association of Anti-Fascists of Korčula for half a year, but also intensively with the Ministry of Internal Affairs in recent days regarding the concert that was previously announced.
The manager of the KIC Pop Choir, Snežana Burzan Vuksanović, said that "it turned out that both non-profit associations and non-commercial performances by foreign citizens in Croatia, such as the performance of the KIC Pop Choir, require work applications, which in such a short period of time I can't get it, despite all the efforts of the organizers.
"Of course, according to the current laws, performing without a work permit can lead to fines, a ban on entry into Croatia and the like. This has not been the practice until now, so it is clearly a matter of changing the interpretation," said Burzan Vuksanović, adding that this is why the decision was made. that the concert be postponed until further.
After the announcement of the concert, the Association of Veterans from Croatia addressed a letter to the KIC pop choir, asking them to cancel their performance in Korčula.
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"As an association, we support the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Korčula, but as Croatian defenders, it is unacceptable for us, as Croatian defenders, that the songs you intend to perform are sung by a choir from the country from which the army comes that attacked us together with the army from Serbia in 1991. The army from which we defended Dubrovnik, Ston and the rest of the Republic of Croatia", he writes in an open letter.
Burzan Vuksanović reminded that the KIC, through the choir, nurtures the culture of memory of the glorious freedom history of Montenegro and the region, and of the people who live here, which should be proud of.
"We in the choir are not nostalgic for the South, we respect the rules, laws and values of the 21st century and the state borders created after the division of the 90s," said Burzan Vuksanović.
She said that the mission of the KIC Pop Choir is to spread good energy, connect people throughout the region, to remember the heritage of the freedom path of the people of the former Yugoslavia and the most beautiful, civilizational values of anti-fascism, love between people, harmony, solidarity, coexistence, good neighborliness.
She said that the KIC pop choir has been enriching the musical and artistic reality of Montenegro and the region for seven and a half years, and that they sang in most Montenegrin cities, as well as in Zagreb, Skopje, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Subotica, Vrbas, Prijepolje, Pula, Konjic, At Tjentištu and everywhere, you were always welcome.
Last year, the KIC pop choir received the prestigious award from ISKRA for civic contribution to the promotion of the common good, and in 2018, from SUBNOR and the anti-fascists of Montenegro, the Charter for special merits in the development and improvement of anti-fascism.
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