We showed how to fight for Serbia, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in New York on Thursday after the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on the Srebrenica genocide with 84 votes in favor, 19 against, and 68 abstentions, which Serbian officials declared as their moral victory.
The resolution commemorates the genocide committed against Bosniaks in Srebrenica in 1995 and calls for July 11 to be established as an international day of remembrance for the victims of that crime.
Vucic said that while 84 countries voted for the resolution, 87 did not. “In any national parliament, such an act would not have succeeded.”
Vucic individually thanked the countries that voted against or abstained. Among the EU countries, Hungary voted against, while Slovakia, Greece, and Cyprus abstained.
He said three countries that were among the sponsors of the resolution ultimately abstained from voting.
The resolution was proposed by Germany and Rwanda, with around 40 countries, including Croatia, which also voted for it, as sponsors.
The Associated Press reported that the supporters of the resolution had hoped for 100 votes. Against were Russia, China, Hungary, and some African, South American, and Asian countries such as Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, South Korea, and Azerbaijan.
Those who conceived this did everything to humiliate Serbia, Vucic said.
In a post on Instagram, he said: “Surrender is never an option for us! Proud of a free Serbia and the heroic Serbian people.”
The President of Bosnia's Republika Srpska (RS) entity, Milorad Dodik, said the resolution “failed” because 84 votes in favour were “not an absolute majority.”
He added that the intention to label Serbs as a genocidal people had failed.
Serbian media covered the adoption of the resolution with dominant assessments that it did not receive a convincing majority support, with headlines such as “Defeat of the West and its blackmail” and comments about a “shameful resolution” which ultimately had more votes ‘against’ and abstentions than ‘for’.
Belgrade media highlighted the assessment of Russian Ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebenzya, who said the result of the vote in the General Assembly showed deep divisions in the international community, describing it as a “Pyrrhic victory for the proposers.”
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