Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic announced that the UN Security Council will hold an urgent session on Bosnia and Herzegovina on April 30 at Russia's request, and that Serb member of Bosnia's tripartite Presidency Zeljka Cvijanovic will address the event, local media reported.

Also, according to Dacic, the UN Security Council will hold a regular session on Bosnia and Herzegovina mid-May and that Serbian President is yet to decide who will represent Serbia there.

Cvijanovic's office confirmed she asked to address the event and that she would do so via video link. The Serb politician has been under US sanctions since July 31 for obstructing and undermining the implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement, pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14033, thus unable to travel to the United States.

Commenting on the resolution on Srebrenica, which was supposed to be on agenda of the Security Council on May 2, but was postponed, Dacic noted that the proposed document was an “inconsiderate gesture” and that the countries that sponsor the document will certainly not give up on it.

According to him, the resolution's sponsors also did not expect Serbia to confront it so strongly

“They expected us to deny the crime, and instead of that we followed the procedure, we said that the UN Charter's Article 12 was breached, that there is no consensus in Bosnia and Herzegovina or in the countries of the region,” he stressed, adding that Serbia was not informed beforehand about the proposal.

Dacic also deems that the resolution is far from reconciliation and will only deepen the divisions.

If adopted at the UN General Assembly, the resolution on Srebrenica, according to the initial proposal, would establish July 11 as the international day of remembrance for the Srebrenica genocide victims and would condemn the genocide denial and its glorification.

The document did not mention Serbia, Bosnia's Republika Srpska entity or the Serb people.

Two international courts said that the 1995 mass killing of the Bosniak men and boys in Srebrenica was an act of genocide.