Early this morning, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Patriarch Porfiry visited the "St. Sava" temple in Belgrade, BGNES reported.
Vucic listened to the statement of the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church with a candle in hand. In his speech, Porfiry condemned "the world that has forgotten the repeated genocide against the Serbian people in the 20th century". He says, "In every place where a Serb lives, today is a kind of Golgotha". The patriarch said, "Today the Serbs are raising their voices against injustice and historical revisionism, in which the Serbian people - victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing - will be accused of committing genocide".
On the 23rd of this month, a resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica is expected to be voted on at the UN. In July 1995, in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica, Serbian forces commanded by General Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic massacred over 9,000 people in just a few days. To date, the bodies of over 8,000 of them have been found. They are buried in the Potochari area near Srebrenica.
After listening to the speech of the patriarch, Vucic said: "Those who are against us are very strong, but Serbia is the most holy that we have."
"There are many lies, but the truth is only one and eternal. Our tricolour will fly again in New York... under it all the free countries of the world will find a place," he also said before he departed for New York.
The President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik was with him in the church.
The main perpetrators of the Srebrenica genocide, Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic, were convicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. For many years they were hiding in Serbia. Bulgaria supports the voting of the resolution.
In the Serbian press today, well-known public figures ask themselves, "How is it possible in the 21st century for a president to go to church and pray before an important international event and whether Vucic did not experience some kind of religious awakening and revelation". /BGNES
