JERUSALEM, July 31 (Hina) - Croatia's First Deputy Prime Minister Goran Granic on Monday visited Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial centre in Jerusalem, and on behalf of the Croatian Government condemned crimes committed against Jews
by the Ustashi regime in Croatia (1941-1945).
JERUSALEM, July 31 (Hina) - Croatia's First Deputy Prime Minister
Goran Granic on Monday visited Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial
centre in Jerusalem, and on behalf of the Croatian Government
condemned crimes committed against Jews by the Ustashi regime in
Croatia (1941-1945). #L#
Granic, who is heading a Croatian state delegation on a four-day
visit to Jerusalem, laid a wreath at the memorial centre, erected in
memory of millions of Jews killed in World War II.
"Based on the achievements of the anti-fascist struggle, which is
built into Croatia's foundations, and in the spirit of values to
which the Government of the Republic of Croatia, to which I belong,
is committed, as well as in the spirit of my own beliefs, I most
resolutely and permanently condemn crimes committed against Jews
during World War II in Europe, including Croatia, under the Ustashi
regime and Nazi occupation," Granic said after the wreath-laying
ceremony.
"It is an honour for me as First Deputy to Croatia's Prime Minister
and on my own behalf to lay a wreath at the Yad Vashem Memorial Hall
as an expression of the deepest respect of democratic Croatia for
the victims and determination not to let these or similar crimes
ever happen again," Granic said.
The Croatian delegation arrived in Israel on Sunday. The First
Deputy Prime Minister will on Wednesday hold talks with Israeli
Prime Minister Ehud Barak. On Tuesday Granic will meet Deputy Prime
Minister David Levy, with whom he will sign an agreement on the
stimulation and protection of investments and an agreement on trade
and economic cooperation.
(hina) rml