The declaration was adopted with the votes of 127 of the 250 MPs. Twenty-one voted against, while the rest walked out.

The declaration says that the Serbian parliament condemns in the strongest terms the crime committed against the Bosniak population of Srebrenica, eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina, in July 1995, as established by a ruling of the International Court of Justice.

Parliament also extends condolences and apologises to the victims' families because the utmost was not done to prevent the tragedy, and supports the work of state bodies in charge of prosecuting war crimes as well as a successful completion of cooperation with the Hague war crimes tribunal, in which, the declaration says, the location and arrest of Bosnian Serb wartime military leader Ratko Mladic is especially important.

The declaration underlines that the Serbian parliament expects other former Yugoslav countries to equally condemn crimes committed against Serbs and to extend their own condolences and apology to the families of Serb victims.

The Serbian parliament also condemned all social and political processes and manifestations that had led to the belief that national goals could be achieved by using armed force and physical violence against members of other peoples and religions.

The declaration calls on all sides in Bosnia-Herzegovina which were in conflict, as well as on all former Yugoslav countries, to continue the process of reconciliation and strengthening of conditions for coexistence based on the equality of peoples and full respect for human and minority rights and freedoms, so that the crimes that were committed cannot reoccur.

In July 1995, Bosnian Serb troops led by Mladic killed 8,000 Bosniak civilians in Srebrenica, a protected enclave at the time.