“Sports brings people together. People in all of our countries are tired of ideological differences, of going back into the past all the time.”

—  Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović

"AP Interview: Croatian leader says Trump, Putin key to peace" in Associated Press https://apnews.com/article/7a9da0dd58174bca9a02c9f4d12595bd (15 July 2018)

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