Stanicic and Hungarian Ambassador Jozsef Pandur met in Subotica on Wednesday with mayor Geza Kucsera to discuss the position of the Croat and Hungarian minorities in the northern province of Vojvodina.
In an address to reporters after the talks, Ambassador Stanicic mentioned some events which caused concern about the position of minorities, including a front-page article in the latest issue of the Belgrade-based Nedeljni Telegraf headlined "Hungarians and Croats Buying Vojvodina".
"After all incidents reported in Vojvodina this year, this seems like a call to lynching and new incidents," Stanicic said adding that the article was particularly worrying because it quoted the chairman of the Serbian parliament's committee on security, Radical Milorad Mircic.
Headlines like this one could be interpreted as instigation to violence, the more so as they are published only several days before the second round of elections in Serbia, the ambassador said.
Stanicic dismissed as ridiculous claims that "Croat intelligence agents are infiltrating companies in Vojvodina with the aim of buying land in Vojvodina".
The frequency of inter-ethnic incidents in the province over the last twelve months points to the fact that these are not isolated events, Stanicic said, expressing belief that the problem would nevertheless be settled.
The purpose of the visit to Subotica - the political, cultural and educational centre of Vojvodina Croats - is to show local Croats that Croatia cares about them, but it does not want to influence their political affiliation, Stanicic said.
"They are citizens of this country and in the political sense they decide about their destiny on their own," Stanicic said.
Over the last month Subotica has welcomed numerous foreign delegations and officials after a series of inter-ethnic incidents in which the targets were mostly members of the Hungarian minority, their property and institutions.