The bill he rejected was initiated by the Bosniak and Croat members of the presidency, Haris Siladjic and Zeljko Komsic, and was prompted by a recent International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.
Meru koju je on odbacio inicirali su bošnjački i hrvatski članovi predsedništva Haris Silajdžić i Željko Kimšić, a bila je podstaknuta nedavnom presudom Međunarodnog suda pravde (MSP) o genocidu u Srebrenici 1995. godine.