The party leaders also urged journalists to help with their reporting in the implementation of projects aimed at restoring coexistence and a peaceful and safe living for every pupil, child and citizen, said Zeljko Sabo of the SDP while reading out the joint statement that was also signed by Petar Mlinaric of the HDZ, Nikola Toth of the HSP and Svetislav Ladjarevic of the SDSS.
They called on educational institutions to step up inspections of pupils and school kits they were taking to classes in order to prevent incidents.
SDSS leader Ladjarevic said that political parties acted together in processes that were aimed at ensuring a future for young residents of Vukovar. He was referring to Croatian and Serb children attending classes at the same time.
The political leaders said they all supported the process and acted together in that regard.
The joint statement was prompted by an incident in a primary school when two seventh-graders abused and threatened two brothers with a knife. The incident was not ethnically motivated. The other incident occurred in a secondary school, where nationalist anti-Serb graffiti appeared.