Dacic: Draft Srebrenica resolution violates principles peace in BiH rests upon

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic says a draft Srebrenica genocide resolution supported by Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) without any involvement from Republika Srpska violates the Dayton Agreement, the BiH constitution and all principles peace in that country rests upon.

"On April 17, a resolution proposed by Germany and Rwanda, with support from the missions of 15 other countries including the BiH, will be presented in the UN," Dacic told the RTS on Thursday evening, noting that the BiH had "false legitimacy" because Republika Srpska, its Serb part, had not been involved in the tabling of the document or even consulted about it.

"That shows that (BiH) Muslims do not want peace, that they do not want Serbs as their neighbours," Dacic said.

He said UN resolutions on important issues such as these were passed by a two-thirds majority but that the sponsors of the Srebrenica resolution wanted to ensure it could be passed by a simple majority only.

"It is evident that, through certain manipulations, by not putting this topic under an item that concerns international peace and security but under an item of culture of peace, or remembrance, it is being moved out of the UN Security Council (UNSC), which is completely illegal because the UN General Assembly cannot deal with a topic the UNSC is already dealing with," Dacic said.

He also noted that the UNSC had recently refused to hold a debate on the 25th anniversary of the 1999 NATO aggression on Serbia and the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

"The argumentation at the time was 'let's not deal with topics from the past,' and this (Srebrenica) happened before all that, it happened in 1995," Dacic said.