ZAGREB, February 20, 2018 – Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vučić on Tuesday said at a meeting with a delegation of families of Croatian soldiers listed as missing from the 1991-1995 Homeland War in Belgrade that his office would review this issue on a weekly basis.
“Serbia’s President told us that there isn’t any reason why he personally could not be involved in that issue and that he is absolutely not interested in protecting anyone who in 1991 was in the chain of responsibility or perhaps today has some influence,” the association’s president Ljiljana Alvir told reporters after meeting with Vučić.
“Based on recent statements in Zagreb that he can help in resolving the issue of the war missing,” we called on Serbia’s president to urge the relevant Serbian institutions for information on the war missing.
According to Alvir, Vučić announced that “as the commander of the armed forces, he would exercise full influence in the Army (of Serbia) to hand over everything it can,” from the archives that can contribute to the search for the missing.
Earlier, Vučić met with representatives of the Croat minority in Serbia led by the president of the Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina, Tomislav Žigmanov and announced that the “better times are ahead for the Croat national minority in Serbia.” “Croats must not feel threatened in Serbia,” Vučić said at that meeting.
Today’s meetings were organised a week after Vučić visited Croatia at the invitation of Croatia’s President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović.
Ahead of travelling to Belgrade, Croatia’s federation of associations of families of missing soldiers and prisoners of war said they would seek information from Serbian archives that might shed light on the fate of their loved ones. Croatia is still searching for 1,945 war missing from the Homeland War.
