The leaders of Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia and Macedonia, boycotted the inauguration of Serbia's new president on Monday, Tomislav Nikolic, over his recent statement's denying the Srebrenica genocide.
Bosnia's presidency chairman Bakir Izetbegovic said,
"I wanted to send a message (to Nikolic) that his statements about Srebrenica and Vukovar — the statements that remind us of Nikolic from 10-15 years ago — are unacceptable,"
"I think that it is important to send such a message straight away because Nikolic is a man who is trying to change. He had changed his rhetoric, but he has to definitely change his attitudes and to prove he had done so by his future statements. We need to help him with that."