BELGRADE, 21. JULY 2016 – Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic strongly criticized the outgoing Croatian cabinet for “anti-Serb hysteria,” stressing that Serbia would not allow anyone to humiliate it. At the same time, Dacic called on the Croatian government in a statement to be reasonable and stop destroying the reputation of its own country and inflicting damage on the entire region. He said that “the rhetoric, vocabulary and open hatred that radiates from every statement and appearance of theirs, is no longer the need for an election campaign in Croatia, but the expression of a pathological obsession and anti-Serb hysteria in Croatia, led by the Croatian government.” “You cannot treat Serbia that way, we do not allow anyone to do that, let alone Croatia which cannot defend ten Cyrillic plates, in which the Ustasha fascist greeting still finds its way into public events,” Dacic stressed in a statement. The Serbian foreign minister asked why Croatia was not bragging about it in Brussels, “but is keeping quiet there and taking criticism from the leading people of the EU and U.S. for trying to trip up Serbia?” “Does the Croatian government have anything else to deal with instead of fanning hatred toward Serbia and Serbs? The fact that Prime Minister Vucic met with the president of Croatia and that we do not allow ourselves to behave like the Croatian government, is a sign of our strength, not weakness,” Dacic remarked. He warned that “it is easy to spread hatred” and “hard to reconcile people,” adding that the “amount of lies about what Serbia allegedly needs to do is inversely proportional to what the [EU] criteria really says for the opening of chapters with Serbia.”
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