2024-04-15 01:12:49
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said today that if the United Nations adopts a proposed resolution on the Srebrenica genocide, Belgrade will apply to become a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, Serbian RTS TV reported.
The Srebrenica resolution was initiated by Germany and Rwanda and calls for July 11 to be declared the International Day of Remembrance of the Srebrenica Genocide. The mass slaughter in Srebrenica took place in July 1995, when the Bosnian Serb forces, led by General Ratko Mladic, killed 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the enclave, declared a security zone by the United Nations, BTA reports.
This resolution is expected to be voted on at a meeting of the UN General Assembly in early May.
“Two NATO countries from Eastern Europe have applied for non-permanent membership in the UN Security Council. If the resolution is passed, we will apply for non-permanent membership in 2025 on the same day,” Vucic said, adding that “Serbia will convincingly win both NATO countries”
He said it would be interesting to talk about the Srebrenica resolution at the UN, “because they prevented us from meeting about NATO aggression with the argument that we are going back to the past, and now they are bringing up an issue that is four years older than this topic”. “They will not only have time to discuss it in some small body, but also in the biggest UN body like the General Assembly, so it is pointless to talk about their hypocrisy, impudence and callousness,” Vucic said.
He pointed out that he would go to New York to fight the lobbying for the vote on the Srebrenica resolution.