ZAGREB, Sept 8 (Hina) - The Croatian Government Public and Media Relations Office on Wednesday dismissed claims published in the "Novi list" daily that during his visit to the opening of a new school year in Vukovar (eastern Croatia)
Prime Minister Zlatko Matesa had not "visited the classes of pupils taking classes in the Serb language," but "ignored them as if they did not exist". "Novi list's" accusation is a complete nonsense, the Government Office said, because Matesa participated in the opening of the newly-reconstructed school in Vukovar "without asking about the ethnic background of the pupils, nor does he have the information". The school had not been reconstructed for pupils of Croat, Serb or any other ethnic groups, but for the children of Vukovar, the citizens of Croatian as in any other state which means to be a normal, civil country, as "Novi list's" reporter wishes it to be hi
ZAGREB, Sept 8 (Hina) - The Croatian Government Public and Media
Relations Office on Wednesday dismissed claims published in the
"Novi list" daily that during his visit to the opening of a new
school year in Vukovar (eastern Croatia) Prime Minister Zlatko
Matesa had not "visited the classes of pupils taking classes in the
Serb language," but "ignored them as if they did not exist".
"Novi list's" accusation is a complete nonsense, the Government
Office said, because Matesa participated in the opening of the
newly-reconstructed school in Vukovar "without asking about the
ethnic background of the pupils, nor does he have the
information".
The school had not been reconstructed for pupils of Croat, Serb or
any other ethnic groups, but for the children of Vukovar, the
citizens of Croatian as in any other state which means to be a
normal, civil country, as "Novi list's" reporter wishes it to be
himself. Everything else is a part of known and constant slander,
the statement said.
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