President Zoran Milanović on Friday cancelled his attendance at an event commemorating the 28th anniversary of wartime military and police operation “Maslenica 93” in Zadar after he learned that two persons wearing clothes with Ustasha symbols were participating in the event.
Acting on orders from the president, who is also the army supreme commander, Armed Forces Chief-of-Staff, Admiral Robert Hranj, and all other military commanders left the event after the first part of the ceremony.
“The organisers said some people showed up whose attendance had not been envisaged by protocol,” Defence Minister Mario Banožić said.
The Jewish Community of Zagreb (ŽOZ) said that a majority of parliamentary groups, including the ruling HDZ, supported its initiative to agree a legislative framework and table a bill to ban Ustasha insignia and the glorification of war criminals at the meeting convened about ten days ago.
Illustration – IVANA – platform (Photo credit: INA)
ZAGREB, Dec 8 (Hina) – The Croatian military Chief-Of-Staff said on Tuesday an aircraft joined in the search for INA’s Ivana D gas platform as soon as its disappearance in the northern Adriatic was reported but that it found nothing due to bad weather, adding that it was ready to resume the search if called.
Speaking to the press in Petrinja, Admiral Robert Hranj said the Coast Guard aircraft, which took off at dawn on Monday, did not notice any pollution at the search location 50 km northwest of Pula either.
He said bad weather, including strong winds, showers and huge waves, made it possible to reach the location only by air. He said no new flights were planned for today and that two Coast Guard vessels were ready to participate in the search if called.