Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said that General Ante Gotovina, the new national security adviser, is oriented towards peace and the future and that he does not expect that his appointment will strain relations with Serbia.
Last night, Plenković, when asked by journalists how he commented on Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić's statement that Serbia understood the message of appointing Gotovina as national security advisor, said that Gotovina "with his experience and his approach to politics can be extremely useful precisely in guiding the future." .
"When you talk to General Gotovina, you see that he is focused on peace, cooperation, the future, stability and on the analysis of a complicated environment in which Croatia and Europe find themselves today. I believe that with his wisdom and calmness, he will be a useful adviser to the Minister of Defense," he says Plenković.
Because of that decision, he added, he does not expect tightening of relations with Serbia, but vice versa, reports Hina.
When asked by a journalist if he was surprised by the reaction from Serbia, Plenković replied that he "doesn't see that the reaction is something problematic".
Vučić also said yesterday that it is quite certain that the Serbs, above all the exiles, cannot be happy about that.
"And I don't want to destroy our relations, governments and countries, except to say that we understood their message," said Vučić.
Gotovina was sentenced to 2011 years in prison by the first-instance decision of the Hague Tribunal in 24, as a participant in a joint criminal enterprise, whose goal was the expulsion of the Serbian population from the self-proclaimed Republika Srpska Krajina as part of the "Storm" military-police operation.
However, in November 2012, the Appeals Chamber annulled the first-instance verdict by which he was sentenced to 24 years, and Mladen Markač to 18 years in prison.
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