The Embassy of Iran in Bosnia and Herzegovina announced the request of the Srebrenica Memorial Center to express its opinion on whether it agrees with the relativization of the genocide in Srebrenica by the Iranian ambassador to Serbia.
Ambassador of Iran in Serbia Rashid Hassan Pour Baei, guest on the Serbian Informer show “Info Jutro”, downplayed the gravity of the genocide in Srebrenica, calling it “some crime” that is presented in an “incorrect way” and claiming that the announced resolution in the UN is being used in political purposes.
Then the Srebrenica Memorial Center requested an urgent declaration of Iran in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In this regard, they expressed themselves from the Iranian Embassy in Sarajevo.
“The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Sarajevo, pointing out that the statement of the distinguished ambassador of Iran in Belgrade regarding the genocide in Srebrenica was misunderstood, states that the principled and official approach of Iran is fixed and unchanging. Iran is proud that since the beginning of the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina, it has always stood by the government and the people of this country and firmly supported and will support its sovereignty and coexistence of all peoples. Genocide is condemned always and everywhere, both in Gaza and in Srebrenica,” they said.
It is unclear what exactly was misunderstood in the mentioned statement of the Iranian ambassador in Belgrade, because it is completely clear that he agreed to the narrative of Belgrade and Banja Luka in such a way that he adopted the position that the resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica will present the Serbian people as a whole as “genocide”. , although there is nothing similar in the text of the resolution, nor in the judgments of the international courts to which the resolution refers.
Even if the ambassador had used a term corresponding to the judicially established degree of war crime (genocide), which was carried out in Srebrenica, instead of “some crime” with the addition that it was presented “in an incorrect way”, this would not have changed the shameful interpretation of the Iranian ambassador in Belgrade that the resolution was politicized.
In the end, the Iranian ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina says in his reply that genocide is always condemned, “both in Gaza and in Srebrenica”.
The resolution on Srebrenica was proposed even before the war crimes in the Gaza Strip, which are carried out by the Israeli government and is connected to the existing judgments of the UN courts, which in the case of Gaza still do not exist, because the war is ongoing, and court processes can take years.
This does not mean that one cannot talk about the genocide in the Gaza Strip or that it did not happen, but that it cannot be part of the resolution in which it refers to the crimes decided by the international courts of the UN. Linking the two crimes at the moment when the Srebrenica resolution is being voted on could only aim to defeat the resolution on Srebrenica, and not to confirm that the genocide took place in Gaza.
It is precisely in this sense that today the member of the BiH Presidency, Željko Komšić, said that “refusal to support the resolution is a denial of the genocide in Srebrenica despite international verdicts”.
Regardless of the fact that today’s event will cause conflicting reactions and interpretations of what was said, undoubtedly the vote on the resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica in the United Nations General Assembly in early May will clearly show who stands where in this sense, Klix.ba reports.
