The Draft Resolution on the International Day of Remembrance and Remembrance of the Srebrenica Genocide in 1995 was presented at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York, and member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Željko Komšić addressed the audience.
“If you take a detailed and even superficial look at the text of this resolution, even the most malicious will not be able to find the argument that is circulating in the media today, which is that this resolution is directed against any state, people or nation, that does not exist in the text of this resolution. The second thing is to try to prevent or try to stop the denial of the facts established by the international courts, which is that genocide was committed in Srebrenica,” said Komšić.
He emphasized that the resolution also sends a universal message.
“The next thing that is worth extracting from this resolution as a universal one is the commitment to the future, to our children and the generations that come after us, which we hope will be better than us, and the commitment to the educational process so that future generations know what happened and can draw the right conclusions that will not be burdened with hatred towards anyone. Denying genocide and denying that evil and accepting that denial is actually sowing new seeds of evil for a new genocide,” said Komšić.
He said that those who attack this resolution and who are against its adoption essentially deny the genocide in Srebrenica.
“Does not accepting the fact that genocide was committed in Srebrenica mean that we are ready to accept some new genocides? I hope that we are aware of its importance both for us in Bosnia and Herzegovina and for reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Only the truth is healing, a lie cannot be healing, a lie does not help, only the truth, only the truth heals. And the harsh truth, whether one likes it or not, is that genocide was committed in Srebrenica, those people were systematically and systematically killed because of their religion and ethnicity,” said the member Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Finally, he expressed the hope that the resolution will receive the required number of votes in the UN General Assembly.
The Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denis Bećirović, also spoke at the United Nations headquarters in New York, on the occasion of the resolution on the International Day of Remembrance and Commemoration of the Genocide in Srebrenica, pointing out the context, reasons and significance of the adoption of the resolution on July 11 as the International Day of Remembrance and Commemoration of the Genocide in Srebrenica, committed in 1995.
Azir Osmanović, a survivor of the genocide in Srebrenica, also addressed those present.
The draft resolution will be presented to the United Nations General Assembly on May 2, Fena reports.
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