{"id":11222,"date":"2021-07-15T17:30:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T15:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/?post_type=news&p=11222"},"modified":"2021-07-16T12:11:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T10:11:51","slug":"president-of-the-republic-after-trilateral-meeting-of-the-presidents-of-croatia-slovenia-and-austria-repression-not-the-way-to-force-people-to-get-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/en\/news\/president-of-the-republic-after-trilateral-meeting-of-the-presidents-of-croatia-slovenia-and-austria-repression-not-the-way-to-force-people-to-get-vaccinated\/","title":{"rendered":"President of the Republic after Trilateral Meeting of the Presidents of Croatia, Slovenia and Austria: Repression not the way to force people to get vaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 attended a trilateral meeting of the heads of state of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Slovenia and the Republic of Croatia in the Slovenian town of Kostanjevica na Krki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the meeting with the President of the Republic of Austria Alexander Van der Bellen and the President of the Republic of Slovenia Borut Pahor, President Milanovi\u0107 said that at the meeting he informed the Presidents about his working visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the problems faced there by the Croatian people, particularly in regard to their voting rights. \u201cIn Europe, there is something common in terms of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and that is the total absence, or very little knowledge, or great ignorance. Slovenia for its own reasons, Austria for its own, but the leading people in these countries do know a bit more. Of course, I cannot know the details, but here it concerns the right of Croatian citizens, i.e. members of the ethnic Croatian community, one of the three constituent communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to elect their own representatives, and not for the members of other ethnic groups to be doing that,\u201d said President Milanovi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Western Balkans and EU enlargement were also topics of discussion at the meeting. \u201cWe agree on both the Western Balkans and North Macedonia and Albania,\u201d the Croatian President said, adding that some things have changed. \u201cThere were elections in Bulgaria and I hope that this will relax the situation and that the young, new and somewhat economically weaker candidate, North Macedonia, will not have problems and impossible conditions imposed, which enter the intimate space of a nation. What no one in Croatia questions is the right of some nations, which are young and new, even by name, to call themselves by their name and to call their language how they want. I think that our Macedonian friends should not be denied this basic, fundamental human right by anyone,\u201d the President added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, President Milanovi\u0107 commented on the pandemic, which was also discussed at the meeting between the three Presidents. \u201cMore than half a year ago, when it became clear that the vaccine was a fact, that it would be available in huge doses, I said something I thought would go in that direction and I still have the same opinion: When the moment comes in which there are more vaccines available than there are interested people, the game is over,\u201d said the President, underscoring that what is now being done makes no sense. \u201cIf you\u2019re vaccinated, I don\u2019t see the point in these masks either. If you\u2019re not, that\u2019s another matter. You are not protecting me, you are protecting yourself,\u201d he pointed out. \u201cI said at the meeting that the best message to the public is that if you are vaccinated, your life will not be miserable anymore and you will live without the mask. Otherwise, all this is pointless. Repression is not the way to force or encourage people to get vaccinated. It will take time and patience. It cannot be an argument that if you have not been vaccinated you are burdening the health system, because that health system accepts you even if you are an alcoholic, if you smoke. It accepts you because it is a social system, it accepts you if you get sick from corona, the flu, because you put money into it all those years so you have the right to get sick. Those who are vaccinated \u2013 that\u2019s soon the majority \u2013 they\u2019ll live normally and those who are not, I can\u2019t say I understand them, but I don\u2019t want them to be oppressed,\u201d President Milanovi\u0107 emphasized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe professions that should be vaccinated include medical staff and those caring for the elderly. It\u2019s a sort of requirement that comes with the job and it applies to a small number of people. For a large number of people, the vast majority of people, it does not apply,\u201d said President Milanovi\u0107 when asked if he discussed and exchanged experiences with his counterparts on how to encourage people to get vaccinated. He recalled that we found ourselves in a situation that is not a state of war or an imminent danger of war, but it is an emergency. It should be constitutionally established as such and decisions of a restrictive nature in relation to human rights and freedoms should be made in accordance with that, the President added. \u201cWe did not do that. I don\u2019t know why we still have a whole hierarchy of legal and administrative acts that are legally weak. You shouldn\u2019t encroach on human rights and freedoms. The administrative policies that had been adopted for more than a year now restrict basic human rights and in most countries these were not accompanied by appropriate acts from the top and, specifically, qualified decisions of representative bodies. If that were the case, and it could have been so, now we would not even be asking some of these questions,\u201d President Milanovi\u0107 asserted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked by journalists about Croatia\u2019s position on the construction of the second block of the Kr\u0161ko NPP, President Milanovi\u0107 said that there are one and a half million people in its immediate vicinity in Croatia. \u201cAt first thought, I would rather not have a nuclear power plant. I would rather have the potential for renewable energy from water, which would help Croatia to be above the average of what the EU considers desirable. In an ideal world, I would rather not have a nuclear power plant that I looked at from my parents\u2019 house on the Sutla River for thirty years. But it is there, it is a reality, it is also 50% Croatian-owned. What Slovenia will do next, I will not say that it is only their business, but it is above all their sovereign decision and I am confident that if they decide to build it, they will build something of the highest quality, as it was done then. I am sure that their approach will be of the highest standards,\u201d said President Milanovi\u0107, adding that no nation is more dedicated to nature and to spending time in nature. \u201cTherefore, I am sure that the Slovenes will not make the wrong decision,\u201d the President underlined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s trilateral meeting of the Presidents of Croatia, Slovenia and Austria was the sixth such meeting and the second in which the President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 participated. Alongside President Milanovi\u0107 at the meeting were Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the Republic of Slovenia Boris Grigi\u0107, Head of the Cabinet of the President of the Republic of Croatia Bartol \u0160imuni\u0107 and Adviser to the President of the Republic of Croatia for Foreign and European Policy Neven Pelicari\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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