Croatia's Foreign and European Affairs Minister Gordan Grlic-Radman has condemned threats against the leader of the Croat Civic Initiative in Montenegro, Adrian Vuksanovic. 

The threats against the leader of the Croat minority party were made in comments on the In4s portal, with some of the readers saying that Croats should have been killed or expelled from the former Yugoslavia and that Vuksanovic would be “among the first to pay for it.”

Grlic-Radman condemned the threats in a conversation with Vuksanović and the leader of the Croat National Council, Zvonimir Dekovic, noting in a Twitter post that he had discussed the matter with his Montenegrin counterpart Djordje Radulovic and that minority protection was the focus of bilateral relations.

The threatening messages against Vuksanovic were posted under a text in which he responded to Montenegrin Parliament Speaker Aleksa Becic’s comment on the 1995 Operation Storm, with which Croatia put an end to a four-year Serb armed insurgency, in which Becic said “May Storm never happen again.”

“You can rest assured that the military and police, liberating Operation Storm will never happen again because nobody will ever dare again to conquer Croatian territory, expel its residents and heartlessly shell towns across Croatia, including its capital, for four years,” Vuksanovic said in response to Becic’s comment as carried by In4s.