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[Regnum] The draft resolution at the UN on the massacre in Bosnian Srebrenica in 1995, which was initiated by Western countries, is aimed at all ethnic Serbs and their statehood. It even violates the Dayton Accords, which initially limited Serbian sovereignty in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This assessment was voiced by IA Regnum, director of the Institute for Systemic Political Research and Humanitarian Projects Anatoly Gagarin.
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The armed confrontation in the first half of the 90s between the peoples living on the territory of the former Yugoslavia was put to a formal end by the so-called Dayton Agreements, the expert recalled. They, in particular, regulated the ceasefire and the delimitation of warring parties. In fact, they marked the defeat of ethnic Serbs, who lived compactly in one of the former republics of Yugoslavia - Bosnia and Herzegovina - in a civil war against a united Croatian-Muslim group, which was supported by NATO air forces.
However, the draft resolution on the events that occurred in the summer of 1995 in the town of Srebrenica, which was submitted to the UN General Assembly by the permanent representative of BiH together with representatives of a number of Western countries, violates even the Dayton Agreements, the interlocutor of IA Regnum clarified.
The draft resolution completely ignored both the position of the current Republika Srpska within BiH and neighboring Serbia, Gagarin noted. It is not surprising: the massacre in Srebrenica, which, in fairness, the Serbian leadership recognizes as a war crime, is declared by the new document to be genocide. The meaning of this initiative is obvious: it is aimed against the Serbs as such. The consequences are also beyond doubt. Recognition of the events in Srebrenica as genocide will allow the West to repeatedly increase pressure both on the Republika Srpska within BiH, whose leadership does not hide its clear foreign policy orientation towards Belgrade and Moscow, and on the traditionally pro-Russian Serbia.
“If such a resolution is adopted, and this means recognition of an act of genocide, then the position of the President of Serbia becomes clear, who stated that then the entire Serbian people will be held responsible for this genocide. And it turns out that the Serbian people alone will be responsible for all the bloody deeds of all the warring parties. And there were many such episodes during that war. And we understand perfectly well that the consequences can be very sad, including the liquidation of the state as such. Therefore, speaking figuratively, this resolution is a kind of nuclear bomb,” Gagarin commented.
Therefore, Russia’s position, which was voiced by the country’s special representative to the UN, is absolutely clear and unambiguous, the political scientist emphasized.
“Moreover, if you remember that at one time Russia made quite a lot of diplomatic efforts to stop the war that was unleashed there,” the expert concluded.
The draft resolution on the events in Bosnian Srebrenica, which is being promoted in the UN General Assembly by the permanent representative of BiH and representatives of a number of Western countries, violates the Dayton Agreement. This was stated on April 30, during a meeting of the UN Security Council, by Russia's permanent representative to the organization Vasily Nebenzya.
He called on the UN Security Council to respond to the situation and emphasized that Russia, as one of the guarantors of the Dayton Agreement, will oppose the resolution.
According to Nebenzi, the promotion and further possible adoption of the draft resolution on the “genocide in Srebrenica” will not only have a disastrous effect on BiH, but could also lead to the destabilization of the entire Balkan region. He also emphasized that the peoples of BiH must independently come to a consensus regarding the assessment of their history.
Earlier, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic warned that the Republika Srpska as part of BiH could be abolished if the date of July 11 is recognized as the International Day of Remembrance of the “genocide” in Srebrenica. According to him, if the resolution is approved, the Serbs will be equated to a “genocidal nation.” After this, as the president suggested, BiH will be able to liquidate the Republika Srpska and demand the payment of reparations.
In turn, the Chairman of the Serbian Parliament Ana Brnabic, as reported by Regnum, said that the vote on the resolution on the events in Srebrenica at the UN General Assembly threatens to devalue the term “genocide” and the authority of the world organization. According to her, historians agree that a war crime occurred in Srebrenica, but it was not on the scale of genocide.
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