The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, said today that he does not understand that everyone united in the protection of the NDH (Independent State of Croatia) and the protection of Ustasha crimes from the Second World War, and pointed out that Croatia fell into its own trap, showing that it does not make any difference in relation to NDH and any other Croatian state that existed until now.
"Why don't they say we committed a crime, genocide against those Serbs and we are sorry. Neither Picula nor others are at all uncomfortable that they are calling for legal and political continuity from the NDH. How did it not occur to you that by banning these people the entry of (Andrija Mandić, Milan Knežević and Aleksa Bečić) fell into their own trap and showed that they do not make any difference in relation to the NDH and any other Croatian state that existed," Vučić told reporters in Paris, according to the Tanjug agency.
Commenting on the statements of the former Croatian MEP Tonino Picula, Vučić said that he is now looking for a job, that is, who he wants to racket after attacking him.
"My influence is growing, Tonino Picula can't sleep. My influence will continue to grow and he needs to ax himself," said Vučić.
Picula said yesterday that Montenegro will have problems on its way to membership in the European Union (EU) and that the head of the Montenegrin parliament Andrija Mandić and the leader of the Democratic People's Party (DNP) Milan Knežević are proactive in approaching the politics of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Vučić. .
The day before yesterday, Croatia declared the head of the Montenegrin Parliament Andrija Mandić, the Deputy Prime Minister Aleksa Bečić and the leader of the Democratic People's Party (DNP) Milan Knežević as persona non grata due to "systemic actions to undermine good-neighborly relations with the Republic of Croatia and continuous abuse of the Republic of Croatia for internal political purposes", alluding thus to the decision of the Parliament of Montenegro to adopt at the end of June the Resolution on the genocide in Jasenovac and the Dachau and Mauthausen camps.
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At the end of June, 41 members of the parliamentary majority voted for the Resolution on the Genocide in Jasenovac and the Dachau and Mauthausen camps, i.e. representatives of the Europe Now Movement of Prime Minister Milojko Spajić, Mandić's NSD, Bečić's Democrats, Knežević's DNP, the Socialist People's Party (SNP) and the Citizens' Alliance CIVIS .
The document was adopted on the initiative of a part of the ruling majority, after the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) voted at the end of May a resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica, including Montenegro, which was opposed by Mandić's and Knežević's parties, which therefore demanded that the Montenegrin parliament determines with a resolution on Jasenovac, which has not yet been published on the parliament's website and in the Official Gazette, nor has Mandić signed it.
The Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Gordan Grlić Radman, said the day before yesterday that it is their sovereign assessment of who they will declare undesirable, and that Mandić, Bečić and Knežević "deserve it because they worsened relations between Montenegro and Croatia".
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He said that Montenegro must meet the final benchmarks in order to close the negotiation chapter 23 (judiciary and fundamental rights) and in that context he mentioned war crimes, the issue of the missing and compensation for the inmates.
Grlić Radman said that the relations between Zagreb and Podgorica had worsened earlier "with the decision to rename the swimming pool in Kotor after the former guard of the Morinj camp, preventing his visit to the school ship 'Jadran' in Tivat and attempts to name streets after Ratko Mladić and Pavlo Bulatović".
The day before yesterday, Mandić said at the parliamentary session that he was surprised by Croatia's decision, saying that Montenegro would not take reciprocal measures.
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Bečić announced that there are "obviously no criteria" for why he is on the list of undesirables, given that there are other party leaders who voted for the resolution and are members of the Government, alluding to Spajić and SNP leader Vladimir Joković.
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He said that, "as a national Montenegrin and the president of the civil party...", he never divided the victims according to religion and nationality, and that his party always condemned all genocides and crimes," always emphasizing and writing down more than once that the responsibility individual, and that no nation is and cannot be genocidal...".
Knežević said that his grandfather Milan "died in vain on St. George's Day 1945, freeing Karlovac from the Ustashas and Nazis."
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The spokesman of the Croatian Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (MVEP) Tomislav Lendić announced that Croatia has the possibility to extend the ban on the entry of Andrija Mandić, Milan Knežević and Aleksa Bečić to all countries of the Schengen area.
Lendić told Croatian Nova TV that at the moment the entry ban applies to the territory of Croatia.
"However, we have the possibility, if we deem it opportune, to extend this ban to all countries of the Schengen area," Lendić said.
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