This was the U.S.'s response. They labelled this statement as being hate-speech.
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U.S. criticizes "hate speech'" in Serbia 9 May 2007
 WASHINGTON -- U.S. State Department expressed regret Tuesday that hate speech seems to have returned to Serbian politics.
Commenting on whether the election of Tomislav Nikolić as Parliament Speaker will “complicate diplomacy”, U.S. State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack said that “what was complicating some of the diplomacy was rhetoric used in the parliamentary debate.”
“According to the reports I have, the rhetoric is reminiscent of hate speech in Serbia common during Slobodan Milošević’s era when people were separated into traitors and patriots,” he said.
"Nobody at all wants to see individuals try to whip up nationalism in destructive ways," McCormack stressed adding, "That does not help Serbia move forward and help to build a more stable Balkan region.”
He added that the U.S. hoped that “in the wake of this particular parliamentary debate, emotions will cool, the rhetoric will be toned down, and that parliamentarians and Serbian leaders focus on how to better integrate Serbia into the rest of the world and into Europe as well as to help build a more stable Balkan region.”
Serwer: Serbia's democracy receives slap in the face
Daniel Serwer, director of the Balkans Initiative at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, said that "the election of Tomislav Nikolić, whose unreformed Radical Party participated in ethnic cleansing in the Balkan wars of the 1990s and whose president is on trial in The Hague, represented a slap in the face to all those - Serbs and non-Serbs - who have supported democracy in Serbia.
“This development is the direct result of the U.S. and EU failure to insist on transfer to The Hague of Ratko Mladić before Serbia's entry into Partnership for Peace,” he argued.
Speaking of the ongoing status settlement of Kosovo, Serwer said the situation in the Parliament was also “a clear illustration of why Kosovo cannot be restored to Serbian sovereignty, as it was time for the UN Security Council to act on Kosovo's status clearly and definitively.”
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This is pure spin and pish. What hate speech? Where is the references and supporting evidence for these claims of hate speech?
Took part in ethnic cleansing? What? Was there some sort of Parliamentary field trip or junket to a Bosnian/Croatian/Albanian village where the MPs did a little ethnic cleansing before a light lunch and a photo call?!!
Fantastical and unsubstantiated claims. What this shows is a return to 90's anti-serb propaganda.
I wonder if they mean the Hate speech from the ethnic-Albanians who the FBI arrested;
"My intent is to hit a heavy concentration of American soldiers, light up four or five Humvees full of soldiers,"
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