DHAKA: Bosnia’s presidency has condemned an attack on Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic at a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.

It said Vucic had visited the town ‘in a spirit of reconciliation, intending to pay respect’.

Vucic was forced to flee the ceremony after being booed and heckled and then pelted with stones.

About 8,000 Muslims were killed in Srebrenica by Bosnian Serb forces during the Bosnian war.

Speaking in Belgrade after the attack, Vucic said his glasses had been smashed in the incident but he was otherwise unhurt.

He said the attackers had been organized, but stressed he would continue his policy of rapprochement.

‘I am sorry that some people didn’t understand my sincere desire to build friendship between Serbs and Bosniaks,’ he said, reports the BBC.

‘My hand remains outstretched to the Bosniak people.’

Vucic is a former radical Serb nationalist who served under Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in the late 1990s.

BDST: 1332 HRS, JULY 12, 2015
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