BELGRADE: REACTIONS TO SANADER'S VISIT TO JASENOVAC

BELGRADE, March 17 (Hina) - The leader of the Alliance of Jewish Communities of Serbia and Montenegro, Aca Singer, has welcomed Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader's visit to the World War II memorial area of Jasenovac.#L# "It reminds me of Willy Brandt's statement seeking forgiveness from the Jewish people for the crimes committed during the period of National Socialism in Germany," Singer told the news agency Beta on Wednesday. "If the Croatian prime minister was as sincere as Brandt was, I can only have a positive opinion of the visit," Singer said. Unlike Singer, a member of the Roma World Parliament, Dragoljub Ackovic, told Beta that Sanader's visit to Jasenovac was no more than an act of courtesy and an "attempt to score political points with the aim of drawing closer to Europe". The vice-president of the Serbian Radical Party, Tomislav Nikolic, said Sanader's visit was "hypocrisy and an act serving self-promotion". The vice-president of the Socialist Party of Serbia of Slobodan Milosevic, Milorad Vucelic, said that Sanader's visit was a "gesture worthy of respect". (Hina) rml sb