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What did Serbia's National Assembly apologize for in its 2010 resolution on Srebrenica?

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Two women in headscarves embrace and mourn over a green coffin among rows of identical coffins at the Potocari cemetery during the Srebrenica massacre mass funeral. — Srebrenica genocide Women mourning over a coffin before the mass funeral for 136 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, 2015.

In 2010, the Serbian National Assembly passed a resolution in which it apologized for having failed to prevent the Srebrenica genocide.

While the resolution addressed this failure to prevent the mass murder of more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys, it is important to note that Serbia was not legally implicated in the genocide itself by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.1