Vukovar residents were going about their everyday chores and no incidents were reported on Thursday, the day of the arrival of Serbian President Boris Tadic to eastern Croatia.
Police were deployed at various locations across the town.
Asked what they expected of Tadic's visit, Vukovar residents said they were in need of work and not politics.
Shortly after 1000 hours, a small number of Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) members, led by HSP president Danijel Srb, gathered outside the water tower in a protest, as they said, against the fact that the Croatian politicians did not care about the Croatian victims.
Srb said the HSP had three main objections against Tadic's visit. The first objection is that Tadic's visit was unofficial and visiting Ovcara and Paulin Dvor on the same day equated the victims killed at two locations, he said.
The HSP leader added that Serbian President Tadic needed to apologise and not express his regret for what had happened in Croatia during the Serb aggression. He stressed that the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS) and SDSS leader Vojislav Stanimirovic personally, who was at the helm of Vukovar during the aggression, should apologise to the Croat people before Tadic.
The group of HSP supporters along the state road near the water tower is increasing as new members keep arriving, carrying banners reading "Apology Is Not Enough", "You Are Not Welcome", "Why Unofficially", "Apology And Not Regret".
