"We expect the cooperation which has been already started to result in an agreement on efforts to solve the issue of missing people, the prosecution of war crimes and the restitution of cultural assets, as well as in an agreement on setting up a solidarity fund which will help, with the financial assistance of international donors, to implement what has been agreed," reads the remembrance statement the SNV issued on Wednesday.
The statement was read out today at sessions of the SNV and its county branches.
This will pave the way to organising the celebration of the next anniversary of Operation Storm in different circumstances and "hopefully, with a different common approach towards it".
The commemorative statement also pays tribute to all who lost their lives or health or their dearest ones in the 1991-1995 period and who were left, temporarily or permanently, without their homes, as well as to those who were or are still refugees.
The statement remembers all whose graves remain unmarked or unknown, whose suffering has not been recognised, and who are victims of crimes which have gone unpunished.
We remember all of them, no matter whether they were of Croatian, Serb or other ethnicity, because they suffered the most in the war and because their sufferings were "the aim and means of the then Croatian and Serb war-mongering policies," the SNV said, adding that "those policies could not imagine peace in the joint life, mutual recognition and democracy for everybody."
"War events are still being described single-dimensionally, without taking into account the experience of the other side and with the lack of awareness of the plurality of memories, as well as with emphasis given to 'the state and the national cause' rather than to the destinies and suffering of people," reads the statement signed by SNV President Milorad Pupovac.
A service for the Serb victims of Operation Storm was held in Belgrade's St. Mark's Church on Wednesday with President Boris Tadic and several hundred people attending it.
The service was conducted by Serb Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej.
A representative of the Croatian Serb refugees in Serbia was quoted by the Beta news agency as saying that according to UNHCR figures, some 53,000 Serbs had returned to Croatia but that the process of return was still slow.
He called for creating conditions for sustainable returns of those wishing to return to Croatia, as well as for the integration of Serb refugees in Serbia.