Some Croatian dailies cited the Guardian as saying that "British attempts to use the upcoming anniversary of the worst war crime in the former Yugoslavia to unite all sides in the wars in mutual forgiveness have collapsed, receiving an angry rebuff from the Bosnian Muslim leadership".
The British daily cited Bosnian officials as saying that such a suggestion was "completely unacceptable".
"[The British] can't be serious," the Guardian cited Bosnian officials as saying.
Those who committed the crimes in Srebrenica must apologise for them, I don't know what Croats have to do with that," Mesic told reporters in Zagreb.
Mesic expressed wish that on 11 July, 10 years after the slaughter in Srebrenica, everybody remembered the biggest crime after World War Two. "I don't think that Srebrenica should be relativized. Nobody could have assumed that after World War Two 8,000 people could be selected and executed in the most brutal way," the Croatian president said.
On the occasion of his official visit to Serbia and Montenegro, scheduled to start on Wednesday, Mesic said that the two countries must help the establishment of a better cooperation in the region. "We must cooperate, we cannot change our geographical position. If we know how to cooperate with our neighbours then we can cooperate with other countries that are not close to us," said Mesic announcing his visit to Serbia and Montenegro.
The Croatian president said that there were some obstacles and difficulties in that, but added that this was understandable given that the 1990s war was very brutal. He advocated the individualisation of guilt so that individuals, and not the entire peoples, could be brought to justice and answer for what they did.
"This is the attainment of civilisation, this happened to others in Europe and the world and it is happening now, here. This is why my visit there is a call for cooperation, a call for the individualisation of guilt," President Mesic said.