Today the UN General Assembly will vote on a resolution declaring 11 July as International Day of Remembrance of the Srebrenica Genocide and condemning the denial of genocide and glorification of war criminals, a BGNES reporter reports.
The draft resolution on the International Day of Remembrance and Commemoration of the Srebrenica Genocide is included in the agenda of the 82nd plenary session under the item 'Culture of Peace'.
The resolution was proposed by Germany and Rwanda and supported by 38 countries, including Bulgaria.
In addition to the sponsors Germany and Rwanda, the co-sponsors are Albania, Andorra, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Croatia, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Jordan, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, the United States, North Macedonia, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Vanuatu.
The draft resolution recalls the decisions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague and the International Court of Justice, which defined the crime in Srebrenica as genocide.
BGNES remind that in July 1995, in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica, Serbian forces commanded by General Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadžić massacred over 9 000 people in just a few days. The bodies of more than 8000 of them have been found to this day. They are buried in the area of Potocari near Srebrenica. /BGNES
