ZAGREB, April 24, 2018 – Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović received the leader of the Democratic Alliance of Vojvodina Croats (DSHV) Tomislav Žigmanov on Monday in Zagreb for talks on how the issues are being resolved to improve the status of ethnic Croats in Serbia, according to a press release issued by the Office of the President.
The talks between Grabar-Kitarović and Žigmanov on these topics ensued after an official visit of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić to Croatia in February when the two heads of state said they would like to see respective ethnic minorities perceiving the countries where they live as their homelands in which they can exercise their minority and human rights.
The Croatian president and the ethnic Croat leader also discussed the impact of the latest developments on the ethnic Croat community. Žigmanov and Vojvodina politician Nenad Čanak were targets of outbursts of invective made by Serbian lawmaker Vojislav Šešelj after he was given ten years imprisonment by the United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) for war crimes against non-Serbs. Šešelj said, among other things, that he was ready to repeat offences he was found guilty of.
In addition, Šešelj’s disgraceful behaviour in the Serbian Assembly made the visiting Croatian delegation to cut short it visit this past Monday. Parliament Speaker Gordan Jandroković thus had to cancel his visit to Vojvodina Croats.
