Russia is categorically against the draft resolution of the UN General Assembly on the "genocide" in Srebrenica", said the Russian permanent representative in the organization Vasily Nebenzia at a meeting of the UN Security Council, RIA Novosti reported.
Vote in May in the General Assembly (UNGA) on the resolution proposed by Germany and Rwanda on the genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995 and the ban on denial of the fact of genocide, according to the leadership of Serbia and Republika Srpska BiH, announced Serbs for “genocide nation” and raises the question of the legitimacy of the existence of RS BiH. According to the draft resolution, the UN General Assembly “resolves to designate July 11 as the International Day of Commemoration of the Srebrenica Genocide of 1995, to be observed annually”. The text condemns “the denial of the genocide in Srebrenica“.
„We are categorically against this project and call on all reasonable countries to do the same,” said Nebenzia.
In July 1995, the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina on the border with Serbia came under the control of Serbian forces led by General Ratko Mladic and deaths and disappearances ensued - according to the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) and a number of other organizations, about 8,100 Muslims. Official Belgrade and Banja Luka recognize the fact of the executions of the male population in July 1995 in the area of Srebrenica, but categorically oppose the term “genocide“, the adoption of which by the international community leads to undesirable political consequences and damages the reputation of the entire Serbian people . In Republika Srpska BiH, in 2017, a monument was even erected to the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, where in 2015 a draft resolution on Srebrenica, recognizing the 1995 executions as genocide, was blocked by the UN Security Council .