Croatian presidential election, 2014–15

The 19th anniversary of the death of Croatia's first President, Franjo Tudjman, was marked on Monday by the unveiling of a more than four-metre-high monument in Zagreb, near the National University Library and the Vatroslav Lisinski concert hall.

ZAGREB - Croatia is your home country, Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic said in her address at a meeting of the Grand Assembly of the Serb National Council (SNV) in Zagreb on Tuesday.

"I am glad to be able to greet you here this evening as your president," she said.

Croatian war widows criticised Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic for describing protesters against Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s visit to Zagreb this week as “individuals from the margins of the political spectrum”.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic handed over files on Serbs who went missing in wartime to his Croatian counterpart Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, as both pledged to resolve disputes that have heightened tensions.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Wednesday he had accepted Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic's invitation to visit Zagreb and that the visit would take place on February 12-13.

"I think it is important for our country that we have received Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic's invitation..."

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ZAGREB - Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic announced on Tuesday she had invited Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to visit Croatia in mid-February.

Addressing the nation from the presidential palace at Pantovcak, Grabar-Kitarovic said she was advocating and pursuing a policy of sincere dialogue and solving open issues in a positive atmosphere.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic confirmed on Wednesday that he had accepted Tuesday's invitation from Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic to visit Zagreb.

"I consider it is important for our country to receive this invitation; we accept that invitation, it [meeting] will be held on February 12th and 13th; I will talk to all Croatian officials," Vucic said.

Croatia "was not an aggressor," Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic said in Zagreb on Thursday, Beta reported.

Instead, Grabar-Kitarovic continued, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) were "attacked by Milosevic's Serbia" and "the so-called JNA (Yugoslav People's Army)" - and these, according to her, are "notorious facts."

A Zagreb rights NGO urged parliament to censure Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic for speaking in support of six former Bosnian Croat officials who are awaiting their verdict at the Hague Tribunal.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will visit Zagreb once discussions with his Croatian counterpart Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic are made possible by calmer circumstances and a different political atmosphere, sources close to the Serbian president have told Tanjug.