The motion was put forward by the group of deputies representing ethnic minorities in the Croatian Parliament. International Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day will be observed on August 2 to commemorate August 2, 1944 when 2,897 Roma were killed in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz.
The government also decided to grant financial support in the amount of 78,897 euros to the Islamic community in Croatia for the construction of an Islamic cultural centre in Sisak, about 60 kilometres southeast of Zagreb.