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Tadić and Mesić discuss WW2 28 June 2007 | 11:26 | Source: Beta ZAGREB -- Newspapers say Serbian and Croatian presidents met and discussed the World War II issues in Zagreb last week. A Zagreb daily reported Wednesday that Boris Tadić and Stjepan Mesić, both attending an energy summit in the Croatian capital last Sunday, “talked and agreed that the two countries ought to put the World War II issues behind them for good.” The initiative reportedly came from Mesić and was accepted by Tadić. Večernji List says the Serbian president agreed that “for the sake of cooperation between the two countries, issues from history should not count among open questions on the agenda.” According to the daily, Croatia sees closure of the World War II question in the shape of “Serbia’s official historiography abandoning the claim of 700,000 Jasenovac victims and placing of the Chetnik movement in a realistic context.” However, Tadić’s cabinet has denied the report. “Tadić and Mesić met and talked about the innocent victims of Jasenovac, Jadovna, Operation Storm. The president said that he will never engage in determining the number of victims, leaving that to historians.” “The president said in his meeting with Mesić that each innocent victim was one too many and that death camps such as Jasenovac and other locations must never be forgotten. He also said that victims ought to be treated with respect and repeated that all those guilty of crimes must face justice,” Tadić’s office said.
