The president of the institution that succeeded the war crimes tribunal in The Hague criticised on Tuesday a recent statement by Serbia’s Prime Minister in which she denied that what happened in 1995 in Srebrenica was genocide.

International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMICT) President Theodor Meron met with Serbia’s President Ana Brnabic on Tuesday to discuss numerous issues, including the future cooperation between Serbia and IRMICT, the institution tasked with taking over the job of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

According to an IRMICT press statement, Meron criticised the statement following the meeting.

“I don’t think it was a genocide. I think it was… you know, I think it was a terrible, terrible crime but genocide is when… genocide is when you kill an entire population, women, children, and this was not the case here,” Brnabic told Deutsche Welle recently.

“The Government of Serbia is not benefiting from disputing verdicts of an important international court,” Meron said after the meeting, the UNMICT statement said.

Meron listed rulings he presided over as a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia that have determined that the crimes committed in Srebrenica in 1995 represent an act of genocide.