UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned the ongoing celebration of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic, warning that such glorification threatens peace in the western Balkans. Speaking at UN headquarters in New York with Denis Bećirović, chair of Bosnia and Herzegovina's three-member state presidency, Guterres also criticised the denial of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide (in which Bosnian Serb forces killed more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys) as a violation of international legal norms. The meeting came after Mladic's funeral in Belgrade drew senior officials from Serbia and Bosnia's Serb-led entity Republika Srpska and was held with military honours, drawing condemnation from EU leaders who called the tribute incompatible with European values.