"Genocide was indisputably committed in Srebrenica and the number of victims if not crucial for such a crime," Foreign Minister Gordan Grlic-Radman said on Tuesday, commenting on President Zoran Milanović's controversial statements about the wartime massacre of Bosniaks.

Milanovic said yesterday that genocide was committed in Srebrenica, where Bosnian Serbs killed 8,000 Bosniaks in 1995, but that a new name had to be invented then for worse crimes such as the Holocaust.

The president’s statement was strongly criticized by Bosniaks in Croatia and Bosniak politicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina, who accused him of insulting the victims.

“Genocide has no level or gradation to estimate the number of victims. Every genocide is genocide. One does not question the number of victims in a genocide, so we too condemned the Srebrenica genocide. That’s indisputable,” Grlic-Radman told the press.

Asked if a street in Zagreb should be named after Aleksandra Zec, a 12-year girl of Serb ethnicity killed together with her parents by Croatian reserve policeman in 1991, the minister said it was up to the City Assembly.

“Croatia condemns every crime, regardless of who committed it, and every perpetrator should answer for it.”

He dismissed the initiative of the Social Democratic Party’s Zagreb branch to restore the Marshal Tito Square name.

“I’m against it. Tito is on the list of those who breached international law and committed war crimes. He is responsible for the biggest crimes that happened in the war and the post-war period. And in the totalitarian communist system, countless Croats were killed. The break-up of the former artificial entity says everything.”