Meeting of Serbian and Croatian Youth in Vukovar

3. 11. 2010. Apropos the meeting between presidents of the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Serbia, Ivo Josipovic and Boris Tadic, set to take place in Vukovar on the 4th of November, 2010, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights' (YIHR) offices in Croatia and Serbia are organizing a meeting of youth from Zagreb and Belgrade in Vukovar. Youth from Zagreb and Belgrade are also to meet with young people from Vukovar.

Through this meeting the YIHR offices wish to welcome the policy of reconciliation and the move taken by the two presidents, underscoring its significance for encouraging the process of dealing with the recent wartime past in the region.

On this occasion, young people from Zagreb, Belgrade and Vukovar are also to meet with people whose family members, or they themselves, were the victims of war crimes. On behalf of the Town of Vukovar, young people will be joined by Danijela Stankovic, Deputy Mayor of Vukovar.

At 12:30 PM young people from these three cities will be casting flowers into the river Vuka from the pedestrian bridge in downtown Vukovar, thus paying tribute to all the victims of war in Vukovar.