Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said today that if the UN adopts a proposed resolution on the Srebrenica genocide, Belgrade will apply for a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, Serbian television RTS reported, quoted by BTA.
The resolution on Srebrenica was initiated by Germany and Rwanda and calls for July 11 to be declared the International Day in Remembrance of the Srebrenica Genocide. The Srebrenica massacre occurred in July 1995, when Bosnian Serb forces led by General Ratko Mladic killed 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the enclave, which had been declared a UN safe zone.
The resolution is expected to be voted on at a UN General Assembly meeting in early May.
"Two NATO countries from Eastern Europe have applied for non-permanent membership in the UN Security Council. "If the resolution is adopted, we will apply for a non-permanent member in 2025 on the same day," Vučić said, adding that "Serbia will convincingly defeat both NATO countries."
He said it would be interesting to talk about the Srebrenica resolution at the UN, "because they prevented us from gathering about NATO's aggression with the argument that we are returning to the past, and now they are raising a topic 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 largest UN body, the General Assembly, so it is pointless to talk about their hypocrisy, impudence and shamelessness," Vucic said.
He stressed that he would go to New York to fight against lobbying for the vote on the Srebrenica resolution.