Just like in previous years, the official commemoration will be boycotted by minority groups.

ZAGREB, March 20, 2018 - Braving very low temperatures in the conditions of extremely poor visibility, four underwater divers worked on repairing a levee on Monday afternoon and thus prevented the collapse of the embankment at the confluence of the River Una with the River Sava near the town of Jasenovac, the Croatian Mountain Rescue Service (HGSS) reported on Monday evening.

The Jasenovac area near the Sava river is in the especially dire situation.

ZAGREB, February 26, 2018 - Deputy Prime Minister Predrag Štromar said on Monday that his Croatian People's Party (HNS), a junior member of the ruling coalition, had not changed its view on the Ustasha salute "For the homeland ready", adding that there should be no place for it in public.

ZAGREB, February 1, 2018 - Lawrence Weinbaum, the Director-General of the Israel section of the World Jewish Congress, an international federation of Jewish communities and organisations, on Wednesday severely criticised the exhibition staged at the Jasenovac Memorial Centre, describing it as one of the worst exhibitions he had seen.

ZAGREB, January 30, 2018 - Serbia is not credible to talk about Jasenovac while at the same time it is rehabilitating its World War II criminals, Croatia's Foreign Minister Marija Pejčinović Burić said on Monday.

ZAGREB, January 29, 2018 - Serbia's Prime Minister Ana Brnabić on Monday said that she did not see any reason for Croatia's protest note regarding an exhibition on the WWII Jasenovac concentration camp at UN headquarters and called for defusing the situation, underscoring that Croatia should have supported the exhibition in order to point to horrific WWII crimes.

ZAGREB, January 29, 2018 - Following Croatia's protest note expressing dissatisfaction with Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić's statement at the opening of an exhibition on the Jasenovac WWII concentration camp at the UN on January 25, Serbia's President Aleksandar Vučić said on Sunday that historical truths were "absolutely clear", whereas Dačić himself said that he was outraged by "hypocrisy and impertinence" of Croatia.

ZAGREB, January 28, 2018 - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić's statements in which he indirectly accused Croatia of rehabilitating the Ustasha ideology are untrue and insulting, begging the question if Serbia is indeed interested in building good neighbourly relations, the Croatian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.

ZAGREB, January 26, 2018 - Croatia's Foreign and European Affairs Ministry on Thursday said that through an exhibition on the Jasenovac concentration camp at the UN headquarters in New York, to be staged on Thursday evening, Serbia "is manipulating and disseminating false information" about that Ustasha-run WW2 concentration camp for "propaganda purposes".