EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DELEGATION AVOIDED HALL HOUSING JASENOVAC EXHIBITION

BELGRADE, JANUARY 22 /SRNA/ – A delegation of the European Parliament, which includes Croatian members of parliament, refused to pass through the central hall of the National Assembly of Serbia where an exhibition on the Jasenovac concentration camp is being displayed, SNS parliamentary group leader Milenko Jovanov has stated.

Jovanov stated that members of the European Parliament "refused to walk through the central hall of the Assembly because the Jasenovac exhibition is located there," noting that the exhibition was set up to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. "For them, this is a provocation. They requested to be escorted to the meeting room via a different route. This is an unbelievable scandal, but also a clear indication of their attitude toward the Jewish, Serb, and Roma victims who perished in one of the most brutal and bloodiest camps in history," Jovanov wrote on the social network X. Earlier, National Assembly Speaker Ana Brnabić said that the European Parliament delegation, which announced its visit to Serbia independently from January 22 to 24, had not consulted with any representatives of the Serbian authorities regarding its arrival in Belgrade. The delegation includes the European Parliament's rapporteur for Serbia, Tonino Picula, as well as Croatian MEPs Stjepo Nikola Bartulica and Ivo Davor Stier. An exhibition titled "Jasenovac – A Lasting Warning" was recently opened in the Central Hall of the National Assembly, organized by the Museum of Genocide Victims with the support of Serbia's Ministry of Culture, marking 80 years since the liberation of the Jasenovac camp system through the heroic breakout of its prisoners. The exhibition is dedicated to January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day.