Vucic: Purpose of Srebrenica Resolution to Deliver a Blow to Serbia

Aleksandar Vucic (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)

The purpose of the U.N. General Assembly's adoption of the Srebrenica resolution was to deliver Serbia a blow, an effort that was spearheaded by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbok, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in Belgrade, on May 24.

Upon his return from New York, where he addressed the U.N. General Assembly during a session at which the resolution was adopted designating July 11 as a day of reflection and commemoration of the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica to be observed annually, Vucic said in an interview with Prva TV that Baerbok “was the strongest in pushing for the resolution that is against Serbia’s vital interests.”

“We have faced this most difficult of issues, and the complete, collective West was against us. They expected unanimous support and eight votes against the resolution and up to 40 countries abstaining – to show that they could defeat Russia. But they underestimated us, we who devoted ourselves to the matter,” Vucic said.

The Serbian president explained that the purpose of the resolution was for “Serbia to accept the blame for everything, and accept that it was not Serbs who were killed in Jasenovac, but Croats in fact, and that they were killed by Serbs.”