The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, said today in New York that the adoption of the resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica “will deepen the gap and lead to new tensions in the Western Balkans”, and called on members of the United Nations to vote against it.
“Not only will this resolution not lead to peace and will not heal the wounds of the past, it will deepen the gap between nations and lead to new tensions in the Western Balkans. That is why we ask that this resolution be withdrawn, and if not, we call on the member states vote against,” he said at a reception organized by the Permanent Mission of Serbia to the United Nations for permanent representatives of UN member states.
He added that the process of the draft resolution lasted for six months in secret, that no one in Serbia was informed about it, and that Belgrade is open to dialogue.
Vučić pointed out that “contrary to all expectations, the submission of this resolution was made regardless of the opposition of the legitimately elected representatives of one nation – the Serbs, and with complete ignoring of the institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and its law and constitution”.
Serbia, he added, consistently condemns the “terrible crimes in Srebrenica”.
As previously announced, Vučić will have a series of consultations and meetings with representatives of the United Nations member states, in order to “explain Serbia’s position regarding the announced resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica.”
He announced meetings with more than 120 permanent representatives of different countries in the UN and announced that a headquarters was formed in the Mission of Serbia to the United Nations in New York to deal with issues related to the attempt to adopt the resolution.
