The draft resolution on Srebrenica already has the support of 40 MP's from the Montenegrin opposition but in order to be adopted, it will need the votes of some MP’s from the ruling coalition, Bosniak Party spokesperson Adel Omeragic told N1 Wednesday.

“The text of the Resolution envisages that July 11 be declared a day of mourning and a day of remembrance for the victims of Srebrenica and that the Parliament of Montenegro will condemn any public denial of the genocide in Srebrenica in its future work,” Omeragic said.

He added that the denial of genocide has increased over the past six months.

“We’ve witnessed the desecration of the buildings belonging to the Islamic Community, and the inscription ‘Knife, wire, Srebrenica’ on the walls of mosques. This shows that such a Resolution is needed in Montenegro for this to be a step forward in the democratic sense, and for Montenegro to send a message that it remains firmly on the course of the values it has created in the past 15 years,” he noted.

The spokesperson of the Montenegrin Bosniak Party also stressed that with this motion for the Resolution, they do not want to place the collective blame on any people, and that collective blame does not exist.

“The blame is individual and there are people who have been convicted of genocide. When we proposed this Resolution, it did not get support for discussion because the deputies of the current majority were not in the mood to support it. Now the conditions have been met and it will be a kind of test of the seriousness and democratic capacity to show whether they will move from words to deeds. It is a matter of coexistence, reconciliation, to show that by adopting this Resolution,” Omeragic pointed out.

The spokesperson also said that the Montenegrin government does not have a joint position on this matter.

Speaking about the conditions towards the Bosniaks in this country, Omeragic said that they received several threats in Pljevlja after the recent elections.

“We are witnessing a political revanchism against Bosniaks employed in public administration, a decreasing number of Bosniaks working in state institutions and termination of contracts. We have come to a situation where Bosniaks in Montenegro must think of their existence as they did in the ‘90s. Almost 100 percent of Bosniaks supported the restoration of Montenegro's independence, and today, 15 years after the restoration of the independence, we are witnessing the removal of Bosniaks from all important places in the country,” Omeragic told N1.

He concluded by saying that a recent survey found that of the 220 leadership positions, seven were occupied by minority representatives. He added that this is, perhaps, the best indicator of the government's attitude towards the minorities in Montenegro.