Mladen Markač

"Gentlemen, I want to talk a little bit more about [our] promotional focus, given the advantages gained from Storm," Tudjman said as he opened the session.

Gotovina became a national icon when he was indicted in July 2001 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY for large-scale crimes against Serb civilians during and after Operation Storm. A broad section of the Croatian public supported his cause, seeing him as a victim of unfair treatment of the young Croatian state by the international community.

A Croatian NGO asked the European Court of Human Rights to examine the Zagreb government's refusal to release information about a contract for legal representation for generals Mladen Markac and Ante Gotovina at their Hague Tribunal appeal.

The shooting of a feature film about the life of Croatian general Ante Gotovina, who was acquitted of war crimes by the Hague Tribunal, starts in Croatia this month.

BELGRADE - Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic replied to recent statement made by Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic regarding the appointment of General Ante Gotovina as a special advisor to Croatian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Damir Krsticevic, reports total-croatia-news.com.

BELGRADE - Chairman of the Serbian Parliament's Committee on the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region Janko Veselinovic said Monday that the appointment of Ante Gotovina as an advisor to Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic is not the kind of news to which the Serbs in Croatia and Serbia could be indifferent.

BELGRADE- President of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia Miodrag Linta called on Sunday on Croatia's President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic to change the "scandalous" decision on the appointment of generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac as advisors with the Homeland Security Council, if she is truly committed to ensuring better relations with Serbia.

Serbian PM, Croatian Storm general meet

ZAGREB -- While in Zagreb recently, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic briefly met and shook hands with former Croatian General Mladen Markac.

Both were attending the inauguration of Croatia's new president. The moment was captured by a photojournalist with the Croatian daily Vecernji List, and the photograph posted on its website.

BELGRADE - President of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia Miodrag Linta stated on Thursday that that the declaration of the Croatian parliament on the case of indictee and leader of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) Vojislav Seselj constitutes fresh pressure on Serbia so as to induce the country to assume all the guilt for the civil war and sufferings in Croatia in the period 1991-1