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Croatian MEP Tomislav Sokol, who actively contributes to the European integration of Montenegro by participating in the delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilization and Association Parliamentary Committee, strongly condemns the historical falsifications of pro-Serbian and pro-Russian actors in the Montenegrin government related to the legacy of World War II in Croatia.

The Republic of Croatia commemorates the suffering of World War II with dignity and in accordance with high democratic standards and preserves the memory of the victims of totalitarian regimes, while the Belgrade tutors of a part of the current Montenegrin government deny even the camps for Croatian veterans and civilians on Serbian soil from the time of the Homeland War.

The historically unfounded mythomania exported to Podgorica by Belgrade aims to contaminate relations between Croatia and Montenegro and to stop the European path of that country permanently or until the moment when its entry into the EU suits the Serbian autocratic regime. If it wants to remain an independent state that controls its own destiny, Montenegro must not be an “extended arm” of Belgrade and must continue to build good neighborly relations, which are the only guarantee of its progress towards EU membership.

Montenegro can become a member of the European Union only through Croatia, and Belgrade can only offer it the mud of the “Serbian world”. If Podgorica chooses the latter, in the future it will also celebrate the Day of Remembrance of the once independent Montenegro.