Addressing deputies and guests, Tihic said that the national liberation movement was the only force in Bosnia-Herzegovina in World War II that truly opposed fascism and enjoyed support among all ethnic groups.
"The citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina can be proud of their role in the fight against fascism," Tihic said, recalling that fascists had committed numerous crimes in Bosnia.
Along with the German occupying forces, "the fascist Ustasha regime" and the "Chetniks", as well as the infamous "Handzar Division", were the most responsible for those crimes, said Tihic.
He warned that despite its defeat in 1945, fascism emerged again in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1992-1995 period.
Prisons and concentration camps, 200,000 victims, thousands of raped women, more than 1,000 destroyed places of worship, the genocide in Srebrenica - all this bears evidence that fascism came to life again during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Tihic said.
He said that everything should be done to prevent such an evil from happening again and supported the adoption of a law banning fascist and pro-fascist organisations in the country.
As the parliament was in session, two smaller parties organised the public burning of fascist flags in front of the Presidency building.
Replicas of the Third Reich, Ustasha and Chetnik flags were set on fire.
The fact that a significant part of the Bosnian public has a negative attitude to the Chetnik movement did not prevent the chairman of the collective state presidency, Borislav Paravac, a Serb who takes pride in the fact that his father had been a Chetnik, from travelling to Moscow to attend the central ceremony marking the victory over fascism.
Paravac's attendance prompted World War II partisan veterans to cancel their attendance and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) collected more than 30,000 signatures demanding that Paravac not travel to Russia, stating that it was disgraceful for the country to be represented by a supporter of fascist collaborators.