Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic's office on Sunday responded to a statement Bosnian Presidency Chairman Zeljko Komsic made on Saturday, saying that his unfounded anti-Croatian rhetoric confirmed that he was not only an illegitimate representative for Bosnian Croats but also an irrelevant interlocutor in international relations.

“Zeljko Komsic, the Presidency member imposed on Croats, is the personification of the outvoting of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” the president’s office said in a press release.

According to a press release from his office on Saturday, Komsic told a UN official in New York that the Bosnian Serb entity “institutionally denies the genocide committed against Bosniaks in Srebrenica and Podrinje”, and that in Croatia “the crime of genocide against Serbs, Roma and Jews” committed during WWII under the Nazi-aligned NDH (Independent State of Croatia) “is denied through the public and political activity of some individuals.”

Grabar-Kitarovic’s office said that Komsic, “lacking his own vision and ability to resolve the problems in Bosnia and Herzegovina, additionally confirms with his constant, unfounded anti-Croatian rhetoric that he is not only an illegitimate but also an irrelevant interlocutor when it comes to international relations or anything else.”