ZAGREB, May 3 (Hina) - Relations between Israel and Croatia have not been as they should have been in the past decade, but today's Croatia is hoping the relations will achieve a new momentum, Croatian President Stipe Mesic said during
talks with the new Israeli Ambassador to Croatia, David Granit. Granit, who is based in Jerusalem , on Thursday handed credentials to the Croatian President. "Croatia has definitely come out of the period of revising recent history and more-or-less flirtations with the ideals of nazi-fascism," Mesic said, stressing that the Croatia of today "with pride accentuates its role in the anti-fascist struggle and with due piety relates to all victims of fascism". "The suffering the Jewish people experienced through history, particularly during World War II, must never be forgotten," Mesic said, adding Croatia "denounces any manifestation of anti-Semitism, however it may occur". We in I
ZAGREB, May 3 (Hina) - Relations between Israel and Croatia have not
been as they should have been in the past decade, but today's
Croatia is hoping the relations will achieve a new momentum,
Croatian President Stipe Mesic said during talks with the new
Israeli Ambassador to Croatia, David Granit.
Granit, who is based in Jerusalem , on Thursday handed credentials
to the Croatian President.
"Croatia has definitely come out of the period of revising recent
history and more-or-less flirtations with the ideals of nazi-
fascism," Mesic said, stressing that the Croatia of today "with
pride accentuates its role in the anti-fascist struggle and with
due piety relates to all victims of fascism".
"The suffering the Jewish people experienced through history,
particularly during World War II, must never be forgotten," Mesic
said, adding Croatia "denounces any manifestation of anti-
Semitism, however it may occur".
We in Israel believe that the future, which s our goal, depends
firstly on history. We recall history and remember it and I am
convinced that Croatia, like other countries, can do the wise thing
-- that they will remember that past and possible mistakes made in
the past and point them out to young generations so they may chose
the right way," the Israeli Ambassador said.
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