Croatian President Ivo Josipović says there is no reason for Croatia’s response to Serbia’s genocide countersuit to jeopardize the good relations. Commenting on Croatia’s response at the International Court of Justice on Dec. 20, Josipović told reporters in Zagreb that the response is “part of the normal process that is unfolding,” and that “nothing really spectacular has happened.”
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“Genocide suits won’t be dropped”
November 23rd, 2010 |
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Croatian President Ivo Josipović says he and his Serbian counterpart Boris Tadić will not discuss the withdrawal of Croatia’s genocide lawsuit against Serbia. Tadić is due to pay an official visit to Croatia on Wednesday.
Croatian president: Serbia welcome in NATO
November 21st, 2010 |
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Serbia needs to find its path and everything depends on it. But as far as Croatia is concerned Serbia is welcome in NATO, Croatian President Ivo Josipović said.
As a fully fledged member of NATO Croatia had its say in adoption of NATO’s new strategy, Zagreb-based daily Jutarnji list reports.
Croat president: I did apologize
November 5th, 2010 |
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Croatian President Ivo Josipović has stated that he did apologize for the Serb victims in Paulin Dvor near Osijek and that some media were “twisting the facts”.
Commenting on reports that he, unlike Serbian President Boris Tadić, did not apologize for the victims, Josipović said he was glad that such media were few.
Nothing can stop reconciliation, say presidents
November 4th, 2010 |
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Serbian President Boris Tadić and Croatian President Ivo Josipović said in Vukovar on Thursday that they are determined to continue the reconciliation process. This despite the fact that the two countries will still need to tear down many barriers, they said, and added that determining the fate of the people who went missing in the war is the first and most important step in that direction.
Doors open to good-neighborly relations
October 29th, 2010 |
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Croatian President Ivo Josipović has qualified the upcoming visit by Serbian President Boris Tadić to OvÄara and Vukovar as very important. It politically and psychologically opens the doors to full cooperation and good-neighborly relations, he said.
Croatian president on Tadić visit
October 25th, 2010 |
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Croatian President Ivo Josipović said Sunday that he expects his Serbian counterpart Boris Tadić to visit Vukovar in the first half of November. The exact date of Tadić’s visit to Croatia has not yet been officially confirmed.
Sport minister meets with Croatian president
September 11th, 2010 |
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Serbian Minister of Youth and Sport Snežana Samardžić-Marković met on Friday with Croatian President Ivo Josipović. According to the statement issued by the Croatian president’s press office, the two officials discussed the prevention of hooliganism at sport events.
Croat right-wingers protest at monument unveiling
July 28th, 2010 |
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The unveiling of a renewed monument in Srb, in the Lika region of Croatia marked the 69th anniversary of an armed Yugoslav partisan uprising. Croatian President Ivo Josipović and MlaÄ‘an ÄorÄ‘ević, an envoy from his Serbian counterpart, attended the assembly.
Serbian PM meets with Croatian president
July 19th, 2010 |
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Croatian President Ivo Josipović has continued his two-day visit to Serbia with a meeting with Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković. Cvetković said after talks with Josipović that Serbia believes that good neighborly relations and regional cooperation are of great importance.
Croatian president visits returnees
June 30th, 2010 |
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Croatian President Ivo Josipović says he would do everything to prevent harassment of returnees who have been waiting for their documents for years. He made the statement on Tuesday during his visit to Serb returnees and Croats from Bosnia-Herzegovina living in the vicinity of the town of Zadar .
Commemoration for Serb WW2 victims
June 28th, 2010 |
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A commemoration for the victims of the Second World War Ustasha Jadovno concentration camp was held at Mt. Velebit near Gospić, in Croatia. Croatian President Ivo Josipović attended the ceremony, to say that the history was “still not valued enough in Croatia” and that there were too many who were make the importance of the “anti-fascist struggle relative”.
Croat leader says Serb counterpart “wants friendshipâ€
June 1st, 2010 |
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Croatian President Ivo Josipović says he recognizes the desire for friendship and “reparation of horrible things†in Serbian President Boris Tadić’s statements. Josipović pointed out that it was in Croatia’s interest to “start resolving its issues with Serbiaâ€.
“Regional cooperation has improved”
May 29th, 2010 |
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Regarding his first 100 days in office, Croatian President Ivo Josipović said that his biggest success has been in improving relations in the region. He will be visiting three locations in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Sunday in which war crimes were committed against Croats, Bosniaks, and Serbs during the war.
Croatian President supports govt. economic plan
April 25th, 2010 |
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Croatian President Ivo Josipović said that the government’s economic program provides a good foundation for getting out of the economic crisis. However, he said that the burden of the economic crisis must be divided evenly and justly.
Croat president in apology to Bosnia
April 15th, 2010 |
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Croatian President Ivo Josipović has apologized in Sarajevo for Croatia’s participation in a policy aimed at partitioning Bosnia-Herzegovina during the 1990s. In his speech before MPs of both houses of the Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Parliamentary Assembly and the highest state official, the Croatian president expressed regret because Croatia had, with its policy of that period, contributed to the suffering of the people and divisions which still plagued the societies in the region.
Croat president to be inaugurated
February 17th, 2010 |
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The inauguration of Ivo Josipović, the third Croatian president since it gained independence, will be held in Zagreb on Thursday. About 80 envoys have confirmed their arrival, ten of those presidents and nine representatives of international organizations.
Mesić continues with controversial statements
January 23rd, 2010 |
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Exiting Croatian President Stjepan Mesić said that an eventual secession of the Republic of Srpska (RS) would lead to the formation of a “Greater Serbia.†Mesić said that holding a referendum for the RS adjoining itself to Serbia would be dangerous because the borders of Serbia would then reach Karlovac, which would change the architecture of this part of Europe and lead to great problems, according to Zagreb daily Jutarnji List.
Josipović “advised against visiting Kosovoâ€
January 14th, 2010 |
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Serbia and Bosnia will likely be the first trips abroad for newlyelected Croatian president Ivo Josipović, says an ethnic Serb leader in Croatia. However, noted Milorad Pupovac, it would not be wise if he decided to go to Kosovo at this point.
“Bosnia could turn to Palestine in heart of Europe”
January 4th, 2010 |
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Outgoing Croatian President Stjepan Mesić said that there will be negative effects if Bosnia-Herzegovina falls apart. He stated that should the Serb entity, RS, break away, Bosnia’s Croats – who currently form the second entity, the Muslim-Croat Federation – “would do the same”, with all this turning what would remain of Bosnia-Herzegovina into “an Islamic state”.