According to the statement, also signed by the Joint of Council of Municipalities, the Prosvjeta cultural society and the Privrednik business association, it was issued in response to the "continued violence against the Cyrillic script" and its violent message to those who considered it their script - the Serbs in Croatia.
The five organisations said the Serbs in Croatia did not consider it freedom if they were denied the right to their script and if the script was proclaimed "aggressive and criminal."
They voiced their deepest concern about the spreading of intolerance, unlawfulness and violence initiated because of the Cyrillic script by some associations, parties and religious figures.
They are especially worried that instead of condemning those who spread intolerance, unlawfulness and violence, there is "an atmosphere of condemning the Cyrillic script and the government which, with due caution, is enforcing laws that have waited to be enforced for years."
The five organisations are also worried that many media organisations act as a service of "that campaign," disregarding that they "should not spread inter-ethnic intolerance, create an atmosphere of lawlessness and incite hatred and violence."
They called on parliament bodies and state agencies in charge of the media to protect the fundamental constitutional values, saying that the law, non-violence and tolerance must not be undermined in the public media or jeopardised by freedom of speech.