ZAGREB, May 28 (Hina) - The Croatian government held a special session on Monday at which it passed a decision on the erection of a Monument to the Homeland, thus joining in the marking of May 30, Statehood Day.
ZAGREB, May 28 (Hina) - The Croatian government held a special
session on Monday at which it passed a decision on the erection of a
Monument to the Homeland, thus joining in the marking of May 30,
Statehood Day.#L#
Addressing the session, Prime Minister Ivica Racan said the
monument would pay tribute to the generations of politicians,
scholars, artists, and many other patriots who through many a
century built their ideas, knowledge, and work into the foundations
of the Croatian state and its affirmation.
"We shall erect a monument in lasting memory to them all, one that
will symbolise the victims and the sacrifices of the fateful days in
which the homeland was defended," said Racan.
He stressed the Homeland Defence War, Croatia's early 1990s war of
independence from the ex-Yugoslav federation, had united Croatia
as rarely in its long past.
"There were no left-wing or right-wing. Political, social,
cultural and all other differences were discarded. The awareness of
the importance of unity prevailed as the only way to oppose the much
stronger enemy. That is why we consider those days, which were
fateful for the Croatian state, as glorious and inspirational days
of our modernity," Racan said.
He stressed those days had shown the people's unity and proved its
spiritual strength and power.
"That brilliant period of our history cannot and must not be
overshadowed by some individuals who have overstepped the limits of
humanity and justice," asserted the prime minister.
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