Speaking to reporters during a visit to the Kopacki Rit nature park in eastern Croatia, Milanovic said that the attack was an embarrassing incident, that he would not want to comment on whether Vucic should have gone to Srebrenica or on the developments that preceded the marking of the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, "which is not to be blamed on the Serb people but on criminals among them, who did not ask the Serb people if they can do it."
Eight thousand people were killed, if that is not an act of genocide, I don't know what is, said Milanovic.
Asked by reporters if he would travel today to Brussels for a meeting of EU member-countries' leaders, Milanovic said that he was to have travelled, but that he received information that the meeting was cancelled and that only a meeting of the members of the euro area would be held, which he described as "a flippant approach."
We who are not in the euro area and will not enter it for some time, do not decide about whether Greece will stay there. We did not give loans to Greece and our taxpayers have nothing to do with it, so it's a kind of show, said the PM.
He added that Croatia was not deciding about whether Greece would remain in the euro area, but whether it would stay in the EU if it left the euro area, and that he believed that it would stay and saw no reason for speculation that it should leave the EU if it left the euro area, as well as that he would be against it.
"I sympathise with the Greek people, but someone there should assume responsibility. Both sides have demonstrated a lack of seriousness," said Milanovic.