Boris Milošević

Boris Milošević (Serbian Cyrillic: Борис Милошевић, pronounced [bǒris milǒːʃeʋitɕ]; born 5 November 1974)[1] is a Croatian Serb lawyer and politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia between 2020 and 2022.

[7] During his parliamentary career he was a member of the inter-parliamentarty friendship groups with Azerbaijan, Montenegro, Czech Republic, Greece, Ireland, Italy, China, Russia, Serbia and the United Kingdom.

[10] On 23 July 2020, Milošević was elected one of the four Deputy Prime Ministers of Croatia in charge of social affairs and human and minority rights in the new cabinet of Andrej Plenković.

[2] Croatian President Zoran Milanović reacted to Milošević becoming a Deputy Prime Minister by saying that he wishes to see Milošević in Knin at the celebration of the Victory Day,[11] marking the anniversary of Operation Storm that brought an end to the Serb rebellion, and led to a large refugee crisis of Serb civilians,[12] for which Milanović blamed the then Belgrade government.

[12] On 30 July, Prime Minister Plenković announced that Milošević would be participating in the celebration of the Victory Day while the Minister of Croatian Veterans Tomo Medved would be participating in the commemoration of the Grubori massacre, where six Serb civilians were killed in the aftermath of the Operation Storm.

[20] After the Victory Day celebration, Milošević talked to the media about his reasons for coming and about Serb victims explaining it with a quote: "Let the spiral of hatred be broken so that the horrors of war will never be repeated.

"[21]The same day, after the celebration in Knin was over, a banner was set up above the Zemun–Pančevo highway, between Borča and Padinska Skela, saying "Борисе Милошевићу, пичко ustaška" (transl.

[23] Milošević said that the mass return of exiled Serbs to the territories where Operation Storm was carried out "will certainly not happen", but that the message of the government is that it will do everything to create preconditions for that.

[27][28] On 23 July, he praised the citizens' decision to put Nikola Tesla on Croatian euro coins (as a result of a public online poll), dubbing him the "symbol that binds us (Serbs and Croats) to the whole world.