Today, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) will vote on the Resolution declaring July 11 as the International Day of Remembrance for the Genocide in Srebrenica. From 4:00 p.m., as part of the BHT1 show, we are live broadcasting the session of the UN General Assembly on the Resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica. Germany and Rwanda are the sponsors of the Resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica, i.e. the countries that jointly initiated and drafted the text of the Resolution. Subsequently, 32 UN member countries became co-sponsors, and every day more and more countries have resolutely said they will vote for the adoption of the Resolution. The Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United Nations, Zlatko Lagumdžija, announced that the final text of the Resolution on the Srebrenica genocide, which will be submitted for a vote to the UN General Assembly, has been agreed upon. The first amendment of Montenegro and an additional amendment, which are now an integral part of the document, were included in the final text of the Resolution. The first amendment, proposed by Montenegro, emphasizes that criminal responsibility under international law for the crime of genocide cannot be attributed to any ethnic, religious or other community as a whole. “The second amendment emphasizes Bosnia and Herzegovina’s commitment to preserving and strengthening unity in diversity, which is not only the motto of the European Union, but also the essence of our country as a European state based on such traditions,” said Lagumdžija.
The draft Resolution unreservedly condemns any denial of genocide and calls on member states to preserve established facts through their educational systems. The resolution refers to the facts determined by the judgments of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice, as well as domestic courts. The International Court for War Crimes in The Hague ruled that genocide was committed in Srebrenica. For the genocide of at least 8,372 Bosniaks and other war crimes in the Srebrenica region, more than 50 people were sentenced to around 700 years in prison.
