Paravac told Bosnian Serb radio he had received a letter from Bozanic saying that Bozanic would withdraw his ambassadorial nomination due to "the media campaign" directed against him.
Bozanic said in the letter that the media campaign was aimed at discrediting him personally and that it reminded him of "the bleak and dark times of our recent history".
During the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bozanic was one of the leading editors at the Bosnian Serb television station located at Pale, 20 km southeast of Sarajevo, and his public statements were mainly filled with war-mongering and chauvinist rhetoric.
Following the signing of the Dayton peace agreement in 1995, the Serb Democratic Party appointed Bozanic deputy foreign minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Later on, he applied for the ambassadorial post in the United States, but his nomination was not approved by the US government. After that he served as ambassador to South Africa.
In 1997 Bozanic ended up on a black list of persons banned from entering the European Union on the suspicion that he was helping war crimes suspects.
Bozanic was proposed for the important diplomatic post in the Council of Europe by Paravac.