The Srebrenica resolution will be in accordance with the ICJ verdict regarding the crime, and will apologize to all Bosniaks and all victims. The resolution is expected to enter parliamentary procedures sometime next week.
The word "genocide" is not contained in a draft resolution on Srebrenica that should be debated by the Serbian parliament in two weeks' time. This is according to a report in Belgrade daily Blic this Thursday, which also writes that the draft does not mention the International Court of Justice ...
President Boris Tadić on Saturday in the town of Stara Pazova addressed a gathering of his ruling Democratic Party (DS) main board. Tadić, who is also DS president, said that the government will soon present a 10-year plan, which should help turn Serbia into a stable and moderately developed European ...
Turkey has reacted angrily to a U.S. congressional panel's resolution describing as genocide the killings of Armenians in World War I. PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country had been accused of a crime it did not commit, adding the resolution would harm Turkish-US relations.
Parliament Speaker Slavica Đukić-Dejanović says that political compromises surrounding the future Srebrenica resolution "are still being made". Reacting to yesterday's media reports, she said that she "doubts that anyone knows the contents of that text".
President Boris Tadić is expected to meet with party heads to discuss forming a working group for preparing the Srebrenica resolution. According to daily Večernje novosti, this will be the first step towards writing the declaration that will condemn the crimes in Srebrenica, but is not expected to be ...
The ruling Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) will vote for the resolution condemning the Srebrenica crimes, party leader Ivica Dačić said. He said that SPS will also support a resolution, "if there one", condemning all other crimes committed during the war.
MPs are continuing work on a resolution on Srebrenica, but the conditions for calling a parliamentary session have yet to be met. In order for a meeting to be called, the initiative must be supported by 84 MPs, Parliamentary Speaker Slavica Đukić-Dejanović explained.
DSS leader Vojislav Koštunica says the adoption of the Srebrenica resolution would be an example of immoral policy and a degradation of the Serb people. He said that this was the right time for Serbia to, “instead of undermining the Republic of Srpska (RS)”, harmonize a joint text of the ...
Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac said that the Srebrenica resolution is a chance for Serbia to choose to accept responsibility for acts committed in its name. Šutanovac, who is also the Vice-President of the Democratic Party (DS), said that voting on the resolution will show who on the political scene ...
Parliamentary Speaker Slavica Đukić-Dejanović said that she would hold consultations next week with the leaders of the parliamentary MP groups. The consultations would focus on the declaration for condemning the war crimes in Srebrenica.
There are still discussions that are ongoing among politicians from various parties in Serbia regarding the resolutions for condemning war crimes of the 1990s. Even though it is still not known when the drafts for condemning the crimes in Srebrenica and for condemning crimes committed against Serbs will be ...
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Čedomir Jovanović said that he hopes that the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) will vote for the Srebrenica resolution. Jovanović said that SNS deputy leader Aleksandar Vučić’s statement that the Srebrenica massacre was a horrible event is hypocritical, because he never said the same thing ...
Belgrade daily Blic writes that the Serbian parliament would start a debate on a resolution on Srebrenica on February 2. The plans are to get the resolution onto the parliamentary agenda as soon as possible, as well as another, condemning all crimes committed against Serbs in the former Yugoslavia.
President Boris Tadić says that the adoption of a resolution on the victims in Srebrenica would represent a positive step forward. It would represent progress in respect of ethic and all other values and in relation to the constant need of the societies in the Balkans to mourn only their ...
President Boris Tadić said that there will be a resolution on Serb victims adopted along with the resolution condemning the Srebrenica crimes. He told daily Politika that he initiated the Srebrenica resolution, which has been finished, because he believes that “this question is not a partisan or a political one, ...
President Boris Tadić said that even though a majority of the public won’t support it, the parliament must adopt a resolution condemning the Srebrenica crimes. “Politicians are the ones who must be capable of taking responsibility for such a political decision as well, because the citizens vote for them ...
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The European parliament (EP) members on Thursday in Strasbourg adopted a resolution on the EU's enlargement strategy. The document, drafted by the EP Foreign Affairs Committee, asks the Council of the European Union to ratify without any further delay the Interim Trade Agreement with Serbia.