Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic said that he felt sorry for those who thought that by hating others they can bring anything good to their nation and that Serbs and Croats would have to work together and “get closer if they want to survive,” the Beta news agency reported on Friday.

Vucic’s referred to an advertisement for the “Hundred years of Serbian terror in Croatia 1918-2018” film and “The Jasenovac Myth” book aired on the state Croatia’s HRT television.

“Despite of all these outbursts of hatred towards the Serbs, primarily those murdered in (a death camp in the Independent State of Croatia, a Nazi Puppet country during the WWII) Jasenovac, I’ll say that I am convinced that regardless of their wishes and intentions, the Serbs and Croats must be closer to each other in the future and work together if they want to survive,” Vucic told the Belgrade Kurir daily.

Talking to the same newspaper, Serbia’s Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said that the use of Vucic’s and Milorad Pupovac, a Croatian Serb leader, on the CD cover for the film spoke about the honesty concerning the rights of the Serbs living in Croatia.

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