Leposavić became the subject of controversy after he stated in the Parliament of Montenegro that he was ready to admit that the "act of genocide happened in Srebrenica when it was unequivocally determined". He said he would "certainly not deny the legal importance of the decisions of international bodies" even though the International Crime Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which ruled that genocide happened in Srebrenica, "completely lost its legitimacy when it was determined that the evidence of the Council of Europe rapporteur on the extraction and trafficking of organs of Serb civilian victims in Kosovo was destroyed in that court". The US and British embassies in Podgorica condemned his comments and the US embassy immediately called the Montenegrin government to take a clear stance and "unequivocally condemn the massacre and call it what it was – genocide". In response, the Montenegrin government officially declared that "respects […] the Declaration of Acceptance of the Resolution of the European Parliament adopted by the Parliament of Montenegro in 2009, which condemns the crime of genocide in Srebrenica committed in 1995, as well as all other war crimes committed during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia".