"I don't know if the time is right, but it would be good. Because crimes of great magnitude were committed there, even the crime of genocide. The city was attacked and demolished (...) to force Croatia to capitulate and to help Slobodan Milosevic realise his war plan, to create a Greater Serbia.
"I think it is time we all admitted this fact and treated what happened in Vukovar accordingly by evoking memories, paying tribute to the victims and sending out a message that it should never happen again," Mesic said in the interview with Radio Free Europe during his visit to the Czech Republic.
Commenting on relations between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Croatian president said that they were improving.
"The Dayton peace agreement put a stop to the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, but failed to ensure functioning state institutions, so that the entities often act as if they were states, which they are not. In this respect the constitution should be upgraded so that Bosnia-Herzegovina can function like any country based on the rule of law and head towards Euro-Atlantic integration," he said.