Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic opened Thursday's cabinet meeting by expressing his condolences for the victims of the Srebrenica genocide.

“Today is the 24th anniversary of a great tragedy, one of the worst atrocities following World War II. In 1995 more than 8,000 men and youths were killed in Srebrenica,” said Plenkovic.

He added that the government had sent an envoy to two commemorations of that tragedy, one to the Croatian parliament and the other to the Islamic centre in Zagreb.

“We want to express our condolences for the victims of that horrific crime,” Plenkovic underscored and recalled that that “crime has been qualified as genocide by the international tribunal's conviction.”