The president of the HBK Iustitia et Pax Commission, Sisak Bishop Vlado Kosic, said yesterday that hundreds of thousands of people had been affected by the Bleiburg tragedy and the death marches from Bleiburg, Austria back to the former Yugoslavia at the end of World War Two, and that a government which could not commemorate those victims had alienated itself from its people.
Parliament's decision to no longer sponsor the commemoration at Bleiburg was expected given the ruling coalition's position on the Bleiburg commemoration, Kosic said, adding that it was shameful that something like that had happened in parliament.
Speaking to the press in Pozega, Josipovic said "this government, as well as all previous ones, was elected by the people and every government has the duty to see to the interests also of those who did not vote for it."
"Therefore, this is a people's government and I hope it will work in the interest of the state as a whole," he said.