Stjepan Mesić has said that he has been receiving pension checks every month from Serbia. Mesić, who stepped down as Croatia’s president earlier this year, explained that he was getting EUR 39 per month for holding the office of the last president of the presidency of the former Yugoslavia (SFRJ).
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Croatian president to visit RS
May 26th, 2010 |
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Ivo Josipović will be the first Croatian President to visit the Republic of Srpska (RS), Bosnia’s Serb entity. According to a Zagreb daily, former presidents Franjo TuÄ‘man and Stjepan Mesić never set foot in the Bosnian Serb republic, “from which some 200,000 Croatian were expelled during the warâ€.
Jasenovac commemoration to be held
April 18th, 2010 |
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A commemoration will be held in Jasenovac for the victims of the Ustasha death camp, which will be attended by senior Croatian officials. President Ivo Josipović, his predecessor Stjepan Mesić, Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor, and Deputy Assembly Speaker Vladimir Šeks are expected to speak at the commemoration, as will as survivor Refik Piskavica.
Mesić organizes informal meeting of regional leaders
February 18th, 2010 |
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Departing Croatian President Stjepan Mesić organized a dinner for regional leaders, including Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu, Priština stated.
The Kosovo president’s cabinet stated that the meeting was organized in Zagreb on the last day of Mesić’s mandate.
Croat president in offensive outburst
February 12th, 2010 |
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Outgoing Croatian President Stjepan Mesić has stormed out of an interview session, “for the first time in ten years in office”, reports from Zagreb say. He did so with the words, “I’m fed up with that shit”, Croatian media write today.
Mesić again talks military intervention
February 9th, 2010 |
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Outgoing Croat President Stjepan Mesić repeated that he would use the country’s military to intervene in neighboring Bosnia. He was quoted as saying that he would “cut off the corridor connecting the Republic of Srpska (Serb entity in Bosnia) if it were to try and secede from Bosnia-Herzegovina.”
Mesić presents NGO activist with medal
February 2nd, 2010 |
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Croatian President Stjepan Mesić presented President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia Sonja Biserko with a medal in Zagreb on Monday. Mesić explained that Biserko earned the medal “because of her great contribution in the fight for human and citizen rights of Croats and other ethnic minorities in Serbia and in building the foundation for normalizing the relations between Croatia and Serbia”.
Croatia reacts to Tadić’s UNSC speech
January 26th, 2010 |
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Croatia wrote a letter to the UN Security Council stating that Serbian President Boris Tadić’s address regarding this country was “unfounded.†Croatia believes that Tadić “used the Kosovo debate†to make an “unfounded response†to outgoing Croat President Stjepan Mesić’s statements that he would intervene militarily against Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Mesić in message to new patriarch
January 26th, 2010 |
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Exiting Croat President Stjepan Mesić has congratulated the new head of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC), Patriarch Irinej. “I have received the news of your election as the patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church with pleasure,†the Croatian president wrote in his message, pointing out that it was “joyous news for all members of the SPC in Croatiaâ€.
“Croatia for peaceful policiesâ€
January 24th, 2010 |
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Newly-elected Croatian President Ivo Josipović said that Croatia is dedicated to leading peaceful policies. Josipović said that he was not surprised by Serbian President Boris Tadić’s statements before the UN Security Council in which he accused Croatia of “threatening with weapons,†because of the statements of exiting President Stjepan Mesić regarding the possible military intervention in case of a referendum in the Republic of Srpska (RS) for seceding from Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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.
Mesić: My statement was no statement
January 22nd, 2010 |
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Serbs from Croatia are the biggest victims of the war because they “left†Croatia and “left behind everything they hadâ€, says Croat President Stjepan Mesić. “I am not talking about the number of victims now, I am saying that they are victims as a corpus because they withdrew with the army and left everything they had in Croatia, while MiloÅ¡ević did not object because it suited him,†Mesić told the new issue of the Serbian National Council weekly Novosti.
Dodik levels grave accusations at Mesić
January 21st, 2010 |
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RS PM Milorad Dodik says the beginning of Stjepan Mesić’s career was linked with the Ustasha ideology and that he “created no distance from that to this dayâ€. Mesić, Croatia’s outgoing president, stirred spirits this week when he said he would militarily attack the Bosnian Serb entity (RS) in case of a “secession†referendum there.
“Croat Ministry of Justice was against pardoning killerâ€
January 21st, 2010 |
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The Croatian Ministry of Justice was against the shortening of sentence of war criminal Siniša Rimac, Zagreb daily Jutarnji List writes. But the country’s outgoing president, Stjepan Mesić, decided to pardon him anyway, the newspaper says today.
Tadić: Mesić engages in warmongering
January 20th, 2010 |
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Serbian President Boris Tadić says Stjepan Mesić’s latest statements amount to threats against the region’s security and warmongering. Mesić, who will step down as Croatia’s president in February, yesterday said he would send his country’s army to “incapacitate†the Bosnian Serb entity, RS, in case of a “secession†referendum.
“Mesić has no political, or moral weightâ€
January 20th, 2010 |
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FM Vuk Jeremić says Stjepan Mesić’s threat against the Bosnian Serb entity, RS, “represents yet another obvious provocation attemptâ€. “This case should be closed. It is yet another of Mesić’s apparent attempts at provocation,†Jeremić said.
Josipović: Sending troops no option
January 20th, 2010 |
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Commenting on Stjepan Mesić’s statements, Croatia’s new president, Ivo Josipović, said that sending Croatia’s army to a neighboring country is not an option. After the outgoing Croatian president’s statement, reported yesterday, that he would “send in the troops†if RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik held a “referendum on secession†from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Josipović said that it was “Mesić’s style to express himself casuallyâ€.
Exiting Croat leader says he’d attack Bosnian Serbs
January 19th, 2010 |
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Outgoing Croatian President Stjepan Mesić said that he would send the military to cripple RS if it called a secession referendum. The Croatian military, according to Mesić, would incapacitate the Republic of Srpska (RS) in case there was a referendum on independence in this Bosnian entity, that would violate the Dayton accord.
Mesić: Why is Tadić angry?
January 9th, 2010 |
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Croatian President Stjepan Mesić said that he does not see a reason for his Serbian counterpart Boris Tadić to be angry over his visit to Kosovo. “I would have supported him coming with me here and meeting with Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu and the citizens that welcomed us whole-heartedly,†Mesić said after visiting the Croatian minority in the Kosovo village of Janjevo, according to the Croatian Hina agency.
Everyone should recognize Kosovo, says Mesić
January 8th, 2010 |
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Outgoing Croatian President Stjepan Mesić has arrived in Kosovo, where he is meeting with Kosovo Albanian officials.
Beside his meeting with Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu, Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and Assembly President Jakup Krasniqi, Mesić will address members of the assembly in Priština.