"The country should now define relations within the state union of Serbia and Montenegro and solve the issue of Kosovo, which will traumatise a part of the public. I, however, do not expect that this would affect inter-ethnic relations in Vojvodina," Bojan Pajtc told Hina on Monday.
"Sporadic incidents happen and will possibly happen in the future, but they do not reflect the climate of opinion in Vojvodina," Pajtic said.
He said that it was outrageous that those responsible for the persecution of non-Serbs in Vojvodina were still at large. However, the Vojvodina government has no authority over the police, he explained.
On 6 May 1992, the then head of the Hrtkovci municipal community, Ostoja Sibincic, read out a list of 14 "unsuitable" Croats in the town. After that local Croats were subjected to harassment and forced to flee Hrtkovci.
This incident is taken as the start of the expulsion of non-Serbs, mainly Croats, from Vojvodina.
According to a statement issued today by a small opposition party called the Vojvodina Party, the situation in the province has improved since democratic parties came to power in 2000. However, "the masterminds of the evil and perpetrators, as well as the organisers of the so-called human resettlement of the people have not yet been brought to justice," the statement said.