"UN General Assembly Meeting on Srebrenica Genocide Resolution Postponed".
This was announced by the ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to the UN, Zlatko Lagumdžija, Blick reported.
"At the moment we know that the meeting will not take place on May 2, because today we are sending the text of the resolution for revision if the UN member states have other proposals on the text. The general assembly will certainly be after May 6, depending on the session schedule, which we will know on April 29. The mission of BiH to the UN is involved in this decision, so those who need time or those who are ready for a better understanding of the text of the resolution, as a group of friends and sponsors of the resolution, are open to further consultations,” Lagumjiya said.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who is also in New York, did not miss to speak about the postponement of the meeting.
"Tonight we held a meeting with 5 European countries that we believe to be possibly friendly and that will not vote as ordered. We will continue to work and as soon as we return to Belgrade, we will prepare a plan on how to work in Belgrade. We will invite African and Pacific countries to host them. It's something we can do to fight literally every day," Vucic said.
The Serbian president, who is opposed to the adoption of the resolution, claims that the US and Germany are putting pressure on a group of countries to adopt the document.
The position of official Belgrade regarding the genocide in Srebrenica is that the term "genocide" is a concept that the international community deliberately uses to denigrate Serbia and its people.
BGNES recalls that in the summer of 1995, in the protected enclave of Srebrenica, the forces of the Bosnian Serbs, commanded by Radko Mladic, massacred over 9,000 people - Bosnian Muslims - in hours. So far, the bodies of nearly 8,800 of them have been identified and are buried in Potocari near Srebrenica.
In the tragic summer of 1995, the current Serbian president, Aleksandar Vucic, was the minister of information in the cabinet of dictator Slobodan Milosevic. In front of the parliament in Belgrade, Vucic then declared that "for every Serb killed, 100 Bosnians will be killed." The genocide in Srebrenica was confirmed by the verdict of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. /BGNES
