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Croatia's Prime Minister started a three-day-long visit to Japan on Tuesday, where he will meet his Japan counterpart Shinzo Abe and Crown Prince Naruhito.

The first Croatian Prime Minister to visit Japan, he hopes to strengthen economic bilateral relations between the countries and lure Japanese investment to Croatia.

The director of leading Jewish rights organisation the Simon Wiesenthal Centre wrote to Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic demanding an end to pensions for veterans of Nazi-allied units from WWII.

JASENOVAC - Today's Croatia is not a successor to the (Nazi puppet state) Independent State of Croatia (NDH), Zoran Milanovic has said at a commemoration marking 70 years since the break-out of inmates from Ustasha-run death camp Jasenovac.

"Such actions by the prime minister are beyond imaginable in normal civilised countries," Grabar Kitarovic told a press conference on Tuesday amid the latest verbal spat between the two top politicians from opposing parties.

"By doing this, Milanovic is putting into question the institutions of the state as well as the citizens' will," she said.

Vulin and Matic provoked a diplomatic scandal between Serbia and Croatia

Croatian Minister for Defenders Predrag Matic has advised Serbian Labor Minister Aleksandar Vulin "to go get medical treatment."

Matic was commenting on a statement made by Vulin earlier on Wednesday, and explained that his recommendation applied "both to Vojislav Seselj and Vulin."

BRATISLAVA - Serbia will not recall its ambassador from Croatia nor send any negative signal to Croatia, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said late Wednesday.

"I think that Serbia and Croatia need to cooperate far better," Vucic told Radio-Television of Serbia in Bratislava.

PM: Serbia will not recall ambassador from Croatia

BRATISLAVA -- Serbia will not recall its ambassador from Croatia nor send any negative signal to Croatia, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said late on Wednesday.

"I think that Serbia and Croatia need to cooperate far better," Vucic told Radio-Television of Serbia in Bratislava, Slovakia.

"Visit Belgrade and say what you think about Serbia"

PANCEVO -- Serbia wants to have best possible neighborly relations with Croatia, and wishes its Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic "all the best," Aleksandar Vulin has said.

War veterans who have been protesting for over five months said they filed charges against Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic and two Croatian media outlets, accusing them of inciting hatred.

Zlatar Violic has resigned in a formal letter sent to Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic on Wednesday. The Croatian government will formally end her mandate during the course of the day.