The President of the Republika Srpska (RS) entity, Milorad Dodik, made a bizarre statement yesterday, May 1st, regarding the Resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica, which will be discussed at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in mid-May.
During the laying of the foundation stone for a stadium in Surcin near Belgrade, Dodik spoke about this resolution, but it is not entirely clear how he arrived at the number he mentioned.
“There is a possibility that representatives of more than five billion people in the world will not support that resolution. So, a dramatic minority will be in favor of that resolution, regardless of the fact that powerful countries like the United States (U.S.) are behind it, but Russia, China, and many other countries will not,” said the President of RS.
How Dodik got the figure of five billion, no one can say with certainty.
Even if we include China in the calculation, which has around one billion inhabitants, it is almost impossible to reach the figure Dodik mentioned.
To put his statement into context, in the two most populous countries in the world, China and India, “only” a little over two billion people live. Even if all African countries vote against the resolution, the number would only reach around three and a half billion people.
About 4.6 billion people live in the ten most populous countries in the world, but among these countries, only two openly oppose the Resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica, namely China, and Russia, with “only” 147 million people living in the latter.
There are also countries like the U.S., one of the co-sponsors of the resolution, with 336 million inhabitants. The rest of the list includes Indonesia (278 million), Pakistan (229 million), Brazil (217 million), Nigeria (216 million), Bangladesh (168 million), and Mexico (128 million inhabitants). None of these countries has publicly expressed its position on the Resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica.
It is worth noting that the Resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica is expected to be discussed at the UN General Assembly in mid-May. The authors of the resolution are Germany, Rwanda, and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), while the list of co-sponsors, at least those who have confirmed their status, includes Slovenia, the U.S., Italy, France, Chile, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, Vanuatu, and Turkey, Klix.ba writes.
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