We rightfully expect the Serbian authorities to respond to this event in order to remove any suspicion that they may stand behind it, the Initiative's co-chairman, Aleksandar Popov, told Beta agency on Monday in Belgrade.
He said that last Saturday's move would in no way help improve the position of Serbs in Croatia.
"I believe that this is an attempt by a group of people who are to a great extent accountable for the tragedy which Croatian Serbs experienced, to come back on the scene and manipulate people who are now refugees due to their policy," Popov said.
He assessed that the relations between Croatia and Serbia-Montenegro were improving and and they were on the right path towards the solution of refugees' problems, but last Saturday's convention in Belgrade is "an attempt to push things back in the past" and obstruct the process of refugee return.
Last Saturday in Belgrade, the so-called RSK government in exile was formed by about 40 exiled politicians from once occupied Croatian territory, The former parliament speaker of the unrecognised statelet established by Serb rebels in Croatia in the early 1990s, Rajko Lezajic, told the press before the session this was "the first extraordinary session in exile" at which deputies elected at "regular parliamentary elections" in 1993 had been invited. About 40 of the then 82 deputies attended.