\u201cNot that I wasn\u2019t consulted, but it was done behind my back. The Permanent Representative of Croatia to the UN showed that he has no backbone, a man who likes to advertise himself as a great fighter for human rights, he was even an assistant to the UN Secretary-General. All he had to do was abstain, that\u2019s the gist of the story. There is honour, common sense and reputation, and it shouldn\u2019t be played with\u201d, the President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 stated on Croatia\u2019s vote against the UN declaration calling for a humanitarian truce in Gaza, which was voted without prior consultation and agreement with the President of the Republic who under the Constitution is co-creator of Croatian foreign policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Commenting on the explanations by the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Gordan Grli\u0107 Radman and the Prime Minister\u2019s adviser Mate Grani\u0107 as to why Croatia voted against the UN resolution, President Milanovi\u0107 stated: \u201cThe explanation by one who misappropriated public assets in 1991 and specialised in killing pigs, and the explanation by his mentor Mate Grani\u0107 \u2013 are cause for disqualification. Mate Grani\u0107, Plenkovi\u0107\u2019s mentor and failed presidential candidate in a campaign managed by Plenkovi\u0107, talks about a cohabitation that doesn\u2019t work and that they have to violate the Constitution. You will violate the Constitution by not to consulting the President. We voted like that to pay back a debt? To whom? To the Americans? That\u2019s what the man said in his right mind. That\u2019s how we sell off our image and our reputation in the UN\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The President of the Republic further said he\u2019s still waiting for the Prime Minister\u2019s explanation as to why Croatia voted against the UN resolution. \u201cWe\u2019re waiting for the great de-dramatist to explain why they did it. Plenkovi\u0107 had his photo taken with Novak \u0110okovi\u0107. By the way that\u2019s that Russophile. Fantastic athlete I root for generally, but a Russophile. At the same time, he settles accounts with MPs who voted against dragging Croatia into the war and the training of soldiers for the war in Ukraine \u2013 because they\u2019re looking at Croatian interests \u2013 but there\u2019s no problem having his photo taken with people who openly sided with Moscow\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Milanovi\u0107 noted that he won\u2019t keep quiet about the situation in Gaza. \u201cI won\u2019t keep quiet about this situation. We have no complexes, we didn\u2019t persecute Jews in the Second World War for me to have to presently tolerate all kinds of actions by the Israeli government, without any responsibility. I\u2019m saying this from the perspective of the Croatian state and the Croatian people who were abused left and right. Therefore, we are not descendants of Nazis, for the most part we are descendants of antifascists, a large group of people who fought for justice, at times too violently and erroneously. I have no complexes. We have enough honour and self-respect to know where we are and know the difference between right and wrong. At present something not good is happening and there are no innocent ones. After the Irish Prime Minister, I was the first one in Europe to warn about this\u201d, he stated, adding that \u201che won\u2019t yell either every day like the Israeli ambassador in Zagreb to whom as a militant agitator it is quite normal to call out the Croatian President in the middle of Zagreb, and our miserable government doesn\u2019t react\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moreover, President Milanovi\u0107 warned that this situation is a result of a \u201cstaged farce by Plenkovi\u0107 related to the appointment of ambassadors\u201d. \u201cHad we not kept the ambassadors and chiefs of missions appointed a long time ago and who are all either uninterested or loyal to the hand that feeds them, we would be consulting in this matter. The obstruction invented by Plenkovi\u0107 made it possible for him to violate the Constitution and is doing so behind my back\u201d, the President explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Journalists asked him if the vote compromises national security, meaning is Croatia thereby a target. \u201cI don\u2019t see it for now, I believe it won\u2019t happen. The group of good-for nothings who are behind it will have to suffer eventual consequences\u201d, he replied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cNot that I wasn\u2019t consulted, but it was done behind my back. The Permanent Representative of Croatia to the UN showed that he has no backbone, a man who likes to advertise himself as a great fighter for human rights, he was even an assistant to the UN Secretary-General. All he had to do was abstain, that\u2019s the gist of the story. There is honour, common sense and reputation, and it shouldn\u2019t be played with\u201d, the President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 stated on Croatia\u2019s vote against the UN declaration calling for a humanitarian truce in Gaza, which was voted without prior consultation and agreement with the President of the Republic who under the Constitution is co-creator of Croatian foreign policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26544,"template":"","news-cat":[12],"class_list":["post-26582","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-cat-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n