CoR adopts resolution condemning glorification of war criminals in Serbia

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The resolution on the urgent need to protect European values in Serbia and condemning the glorification of convicted war criminals, was adopted during a plenary session in Brussels on October 14.

According to Hina, the adoption of the resolution was initiated by nine Croatian members of the Committee, which comprises 329 politicians from the EU’s 27 member states.

“There is no EU without European values. By paying tribute to Ratko Mladic, Serbia is seriously violating those values,” said Nikola Dobroslavic, a Committee member from the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)

He recalled that the Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic was sentenced to life imprisonment by an international court in The Hague for the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.

“This resolution condemns the glorification of war crimes as anti-European and uncivilized behavior and calls for measures against Serbia,” Dobroslavic added.

The resolution does not specify what measures the EU should take against Serbia.

“Serbia continues to have the support of the European Committee of the Regions on its European path, but it cannot join the EU while behaving in this way,” Dobroslavic said.

Josko Klisovic, a Zagreb City Assembly member from the Social Democratic Party of Croatia, also stressed that Mladic had been convicted of some of the gravest crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.

“It is shameful and unacceptable that the authorities in Serbia participate in, tolerate and encourage the granting of state and military honors to war criminals. This insults the victims and European values and undermines every sincere effort at reconciliation in our region. Europe must not remain silent,” Klisovic said.

“Silence is complicity,” he added.

The Committee of the Regions will send the resolution to the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Council.

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