A decade after Croatia sued Serbia in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Belgrade is ready to lodge a countersuit, alleging that Croatian authorities committed crimes against Serb population in 1991/95, Serbian broadcaster B92 said on December 31 2009.

B92 quoted a Serbian government media statement, saying that the decision was made after consultations held by president Boris Tadić and prime minister Mirko Cvetković.

The statement said that Serbia made the decision because Croatia filed on July 2 1999 a suit with the ICJ against what was then the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia "on account of the violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide during armed conflicts on Croatian territory in the period 1991–1995."