First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia Ivica Dacic assessed that Croatia went on with its provocations, threats and unhidden hatred that the Croatian Minister Kovac nowadays expressed towards Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Serbia.

"Croatia and Kovac obviously have a problem when Serbia and its Prime Minister make it abundantly clear that they will not allow the genocide and the ethnic cleansing of the Serbian people to happen again and that we will not allow the Fascist, Ustasha-run Independent State of Croatia to be rehabilitated, and that we will not allow the criminals from the latest war to be freed. Kovac's cynicism and impertinence culminated when he sought an apology from Serbia. Those who slaughtered and murdered the Serbs in concentration camps are seeking an apology from their victims.

Croatia, which rehabilitated almost all the Ustasha criminals, which did not put Ante Pavelic on trial, so he died in Spain as a free man, has no moral right to threaten and to set out any condition before Serbia. The fact that the Fascism-rehabilitating Croatia forms part of the European Union, gives it no right to insult Serbia and to threaten it.

All the leading countries of the world gave Aleksandar Vucic credit for the policy he is pursuing, the policy of peace and stability, the policy that attacks no one, but which will not allow the genocide and the ethnic cleansing of the Serbs to recur. It is time for the European Union to break its silence and to make it clear for how long it will be tolerating the rehabilitation of the Fascist, Ustasha-run Independent State of Croatia, and the threats against Serbia, coming from Croatia. Such a Croatia is today's largest embarrassment of the European Union".