上个月，克罗地亚纪念了1991年秋季战争惨剧和暴行的又一个令人悲痛的周年。武科瓦尔市被围困三个月之久，被夷为平地。这个城市及其居民经历了第二次世界大战以来欧洲闻所未闻的命运。今天，武科瓦尔公墓中立着一个个白色十字架，提醒人们此地曾发生过大屠杀，有些受害者的遗骸是从该市内外的各处大墓坑中挖出来的。在这个周年纪念日的前几天，在诺维萨德市的一栋塞尔维亚军队综合楼中，有人为一块纪念武科瓦尔遭攻击期间的南斯拉夫人民军和塞尔维亚准军事部队指挥官举行了揭幕仪式。这只是塞尔维亚仍令人遗憾地不愿面对本国历史及其在上世纪90年代发动的那场战争中的作用的一个最新例子而已。塞尔维亚当局的此类决定和行动与克罗地亚建立睦邻关系的努力背道而驰，我们呼吁塞尔维亚停止美化战争罪行。克罗地亚随时准备与邻国合作，协助这些国家克服仍在阻碍它们直面过去的各种障碍，这是实现持久和平、真正达成和解的先决条件。
Last month, Croatia marked another mournful anniversary of the tragedies and atrocities of war in the autumn of 1991. Besieged for three long months and levelled to the ground, the city of Vukovar and its inhabitants suffered a fate unseen in Europe from the Second World War up until that point. White crosses at the Vukovar cemetery stand today as a reminder of the massacre and of the victims exhumed from mass graves in and around the city. A few days before the anniversary, a memorial plaque commemorating the commander of the Yugoslav People’s Army and the Serbian paramilitary forces during the attack on Vukovar was unveiled in a Serbian army complex in the city of Novi Sad. That is only one recent example that shows that Serbia is still, unfortunately, not willing to face its own past and its role in the war that it initiated in the 1990s. Such decisions and moves by Serbian authorities go against Croatia’s efforts to build good-neighbourly relations, and we call on Serbia to stop glorifying war crimes. Croatia stands ready to cooperate with its neighbours and assist them in overcoming the remaining obstacles to facing the past as a precondition for lasting peace and meaningful reconciliation.