Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić called on UN member states not to support the resolution on Srebrenica.
“Why is the resolution being adopted when we are talking about individual legal responsibility? This has already been done through indictments and verdicts and everyone who was accused was convicted. There are no individual names in the resolution, it is about everything, but in general,” said Vučić.
He also said that the resolution will not contribute to reconciliation in BiH and the region.
“It will open a pandora’s box and you will be faced with dozens of such resolutions. How will you explain that this horrific killing and crime of more than 8,000 people is greater than the killing of millions of people in, say, World War II. This will open old wounds and create complete political chaos,” Vučić said.
He repeated that Serbia was bombed in 1999, and said:
“The 24th March at the Security Council, when we wanted to discuss why Serbia was bombed in 1999, they told us not to look at the past. Two days later they told us that they were preparing a resolution for the events of five years before. In that case, the facts don’t matter. Who needs this and why at this time? Why didn’t these people speak out about the genocide committed by their countries? Why don’t you talk about the Holocaust? It is the only genocide recognized by the UN”.
“No one has heard of the genocide against the Serbian people in the First World War. Serbia was the first country in the world in terms of the number of victims in relation to the number of inhabitants. 28 percent of the population lost their lives. The second was France,” said Vučić. He lashed out at the countries that initiated the resolution.
“Why did you have to put so much pressure on the member states of the UN against only one small country like Serbia. Why did you threaten member states that did not want to vote for the Resolution? Why did you tell them that they will not get economic aid”.
In the end, he said that he was “almost lynched” in Srebrenica.
“I personally went to Srebrenica to bow my head and lay flowers and I was almost lynched. This is not about reconciliation, it is not about memory,” he said.
