The Declaration was adopted at the initiative of the Serb Progressive Party (SNS), which asked that crimes against Serbs be condemned, but the ruling party in the northern Serbian province, the Democratic Party, intervened so that the document condemns crimes against all other peoples as well.
The president of the SNS parliamentary group, Igor Mirovic, said the Declaration was a form of protest against the Hague war crimes tribunal's acquittal of Croatian generals and members of the Kosovo Liberation Army who had been accused of crimes against Serbs.
He said all parliamentary groups had agreed on that and that the Declaration included a position with a strong moral basis which condemned all crimes committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia.
Vojvodina Prime Minister Bojan Pajtic said the Declaration was amended to condemn crimes committed against other peoples because crime is a crime regardless of the victim. He said the Declaration regretted and expressed bitterness over every person killed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
The Declaration says the Vojvodina parliament expresses citizens' dissatisfaction and bitterness over the Hague tribunal's acquittal of those accused of war crimes against Serbs on the territory of the former Yugoslavia.
The document calls on relevant institutions and individuals in Serbia and the region to condemn crimes against Serbs, and says that Vojvodina's parliament supports all state bodies and institutions in charge of crime investigation.