Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said that shedding light on all war crimes and punishing the perpetrators was the only path to the reconciliation necessary in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.
President Boris Tadic called on parliament to adopt a declaration which would unequivocally condemn the 1995 crime in Srebrenica, thus meeting one part of the ICJ ruling, and to immediately take steps towards completing cooperation with the Hague war crimes tribunal, including the arrest and extradition of the fugitive indictee Ratko Mladic.
Apart from nongovernmental organisations, the ruling was not welcomed by some political parties.
Social Democratic League of Vojvodina president Nenad Canak told Beta news agency he was speechless.
Cedomir Jovankovic's Liberal Democratic Party pointed to the state's obligation to condemn with a declaration the crimes and genocide in Bosnia.
The parties of the former regime, like the Socialists and the Radicals, only highlighted the fact that Serbia was not found guilty of genocide.
The ICJ's verdict "freed Serbia of the gravest accusation in its history," said the legal team which represented Serbia before the ICJ.