Djukanovic was quoted by the local media in Montenegro on Friday as saying that he was not responsible for what happened in Srebrenica in 1995 when he was the Montenegrin Prime Minister and an ally of Slobodan Milosevic, the then Serbian President who is now on trial in The Hague before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and war crimes in Croatia and Kosovo.
"I was the premier and I had nothing to do with the commanding over the Army of Yugoslavia or with operations carried out by the army of the Republic of Srpska (the Bosnian Serb entity). At the time I had not communicated with Milosevic or other representatives in Belgrade for one year," Djukanovic said.
Emphasizing that responsibility for the Srebrenica atrocities must be established, he said that the Montenegrin government already showed an unequivocal attitude towards that issue to the extent to which Montenegro was a formal part of Yugoslavia and consequently objectively responsible.