The resolution on Jasenovac shows deep divisions in Montenegrin society, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said, and the former head of Montenegrin diplomacy, Ranko Krivokapić, said that those who voted for it "are part of the Quisling legacy in Montenegro."
In a statement to journalists on the sidelines of the Dubrovnik Forum, Plenković said that the resolution adopted by the Parliament of Montenegro on Friday "reflects intentions" that are neither good-neighborly nor partner-like.
Plenković stressed that Croatia "reserves the right to react to this kind of resolution" which is "unnecessary", reports Jutarnji.hr.
"It is obvious that this topic was primarily caused by the fact that Montenegro supported the resolution on Srebrenica at the General Session of the United Nations", so those who voted for the resolution on Jasenovac are "trying to wash it away".
The resolution showed a "deep division in Montenegro", as evidenced by the fact that out of a total of 81 deputies, approximately half of them were not in the parliament for the vote, said Plenković, stressing that Montenegrin President Jakov Milatović, as well as the former minister, opposed it. Foreign Affairs Ranko Krivokapić.
He called the resolution "humiliating for Montenegro, and for the region as a whole."
Krivokapić emphasized that those who adopted the resolution on Jasenovac "are part of the Quisling heritage in Montenegro, the Chetnik movement and everything else," according to Jutarnji.hr.
"They are now condemning their former allies and quislings from the Second World War. They fled together, fought, were quislings. It is a paradox," Krivokapić said.
He reminds Jutarnja that the Dachau and Mauthausen camps were added to the resolution at the last minute. Krivokapić believes that it was decided "as revenge against Germany", which together with Rwanda initiated the adoption of a resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica at the UN.
Krivokapić warned that the EU and the international community must not underestimate "Balkan fascism", "the continuation of the politics of the 1990s" and "the seriousness of the Russian-Serbian world in the Balkans", a project that has been going on since the President of Serbia, Boris Tadić, whose advisers today are "the main pro-Russian forces in Serbia".
Earlier, in a speech at the Forum in Dubrovnik, Plenković said that the resolution "sends a deliberate, conscious policy of division within Montenegro", and "an even worse message regarding mutual respect and the desire for good neighborly relations".
Plenković said that the ruling majority in Podgorica passed the resolution "without ever dealing with that topic" and that it was passed as a response to the United Nations resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica, under the instrumentalization of "another state in the region".
"Instead of dealing with their problems and issues, including the prosecution of war crimes from that time, they are dealing with a topic they have shown no interest in for the last eight decades," concluded Plenković.
On Friday, MPs in the Parliament of Montenegro adopted the Resolution on Genocide in the Jasenovac, Dachau and Mauthausen camp system. 41 members of the ruling majority voted for the Resolution.
The opposition MPs were not in the assembly hall during the voting of the resolution.
Croatia had previously announced a sharp response to the possible adoption of the Resolution on Jasenovac, so it was announced from Zagreb that this could significantly slow down Montenegro's path to the EU.
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