A minority of 43 percent of UN member states voted for the resolution, while 57 percent were against or abstained. The voting was followed by the reactions of officials in Serbia and the region
Today, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the resolution on Srebrenica with 84 votes in favor, 19 against and 68 abstentions. A minority of 43 percent of UN member states voted for the resolution, while 57 percent were against or abstained.
The voting was followed by the reactions of officials in Serbia and the region.
Brnabić: A great result of the work of the president and our diplomacy
The President of the National Assembly of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, said that the result coincides with Serbia's diplomatic activities.
"We did not want to allow our people to be stigmatized." "More than two-thirds of the world did not vote for the resolution," said the Speaker of the Parliament after the adoption of the resolution.
She stated that even those countries that abstained represented a clear voice that they were not in favor of the resolution.
"This is a great result of the work of the president and our diplomacy." "Serbia has shown how it fights for its interests, the world and the principles of international law," said Ana Brnabić.
Vucevic: Today we witnessed serious geopolitical changes
Today, Serbia, the Republika Srpska and the Serbian people, along with most of the world, managed to say clearly and loudly what the truth is, said the Prime Minister of Serbia, Miloš Vučević.
Vucevic said that today we witnessed serious geopolitical changes.
"The resolution on Srebrenica was formally adopted, but essentially it experienced a debacle. We managed to put up an admirable resistance," said Vučević, visiting RTRS Special.
The Prime Minister of Serbia thanked all the countries that had the courage to tell the truth.
Đurić: Anyone who wants to go against Serbia should think twice
Minister of Foreign Affairs Marko Đurić said that one of the most important results of today's vote in the United Nations on the resolution on Srebrenica is that "anyone who wants to go against Serbia will have to think twice."
"On the worst topic, on the topic that is the most sensitive, the most difficult to explain and justify, we managed to have 107 countries that were not against us. It is a wide field for us to discuss our interests when it comes to Kosovo and Metohija and many other things. And the friendships we gained in this fight, we will carefully preserve and nurture", said Đurić after the session of the UN General Assembly where the draft resolution on Srebrenica was adopted.
This is how he answered the journalist's question whether Serbia will again be a demonstrative example in the UN and said that Serbia will continue to strengthen and strengthen and expand its diplomacy, to improve institutions and to create a system that Serbia can rely on.
He stated that President Vučić did a huge part of the work with his connections today, explaining that many world leaders, because of their personal relationships with him, broke down not to succumb to the pressure of force.
"So we will continue to increase all that political capital that we have in the times to come." I am very happy that the UN said a collective 'no' to the dictates. Regardless of what the nominal result is, a clear majority did not support this. And it is important to send a message that we are a country of peace, a country that respects its citizens of other nationalities and religions, that has never been questioned," Đurić pointed out.
He added that Serbia's attitude towards all the victims was never questioned, but, as he pointed out, Serbia said that no hierarchy should be created among the victims and that an entire people should be branded with genocide and shame, equal to the Holocaust.
"I think we succeeded in that today, this opens up a big space so that in four fifths of humanity this is not treated in the way the creators of the resolution envisioned," Đurić concluded.
Dacic: A difficult day for Serbia, but also a victory for Vucic
The Minister of Internal Affairs, Ivica Dačić, said that today is a very difficult day for Serbia, because, as he pointed out, they want to attribute to us that we are a genocidal nation, but despite that, this is a victory for Aleksandar Vučić.
"As President Vučić said, voting in the UN system is strange. Those who are not present will not vote. The Resolution was adopted with a minority. It would have been adopted even if there were 20 votes in favor. This is one victory of Aleksandar Vučić. You should understand how much President Vučić called all the countries in the world, so did others. And they didn't just call, they also threatened," said Dacic in a guest appearance on TV Pink.
Dacic said that, as he stated, at the start we had four supports, namely China, Russia, Hungary and the Emirates.
He said that the sponsors of the resolution failed to persuade the entire Muslim world to vote for this resolution.
"This is a very difficult day because they want to tell our people that we are a genocidal nation. This gives us the right to say that the majority of members did not support the Resolution," said Dacic.
Dacić stated that according to the UN charter, a two-thirds majority is required for voting, and they asked for a simple majority.
The minister emphasized that citizens took to the streets not only in Belgrade, but also in other cities.
Petković: Vučić bravely told the truth in the face of world powers
The Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petković, said that the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, showed how to defend the interests of public international law, how to defend the dignity of a small sovereign country in the mountainous Balkans that does not agree to have dangerous political labels attached to it just because it affects someone's international it suits today's agenda.
"Face and honor have no price! "President Vučić bravely told the truth in the face of world powers, stood up for moral and humanitarian principles, and through three key questions that the sponsors of this shameful resolution did not have an answer to, exposed all their hypocrisy," wrote Petković on his Instagram profile.
He asked himself that at a time when the prime minister of the temporary institutions of Pristina, Aljbin Kurti, is carrying out ethnic cleansing of the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija every day, when he is making the Balkans a new powder keg with his violent moves, who needed such a resolution of shame and for what purpose?
"It will certainly not contribute to reconciliation or calming of tensions, but will only give the wind to new violent pretensions and actions and have dangerous implications for the life of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija and everywhere they live," said Petković.
According to him, that is why even today we remember and do not forget our victims who have no voice, but have Serbia and President Aleksandar Vučić to speak on their behalf and not allow their suffering to be forgotten.
Milićević: No shameful resolutions passed under terrible pressure from Western powers will mark us as criminals
After the UN General Assembly voted on the draft resolution on Srebenica, the members of the Government said that Serbia had seen who its friends were and that most of the world was still on the side of truth and justice.
This is how the minister without portfolio in the Government, Đorđe Milićević, said tonight that "Serbs are not a genocidal people."
He pointed out that "no shameful resolutions passed under the terrible pressure of Western powers will mark us as criminals, nor will they stifle our freedom and state-building spirit."
"We are especially proud of our president, Aleksandar Vučić, who stood up in New York like David against Goliath, and gave an argumentative lesson in justice and truth to the representatives of Germany, but also to the entire hypocritical West," said the minister, as stated in the announcement.
According to his words, today it was clearly seen who are our friends, and who are those to whom Serbia is "brotherly and friendly only when they need some help, which we have always provided them with clean hands and an open heart."
"Today it was seen who is faith and who is unbelief, and Serbia, I am convinced, will know how to value that in the future," Minister Milićević said.
He emphasized that the Serbs were always only as strong as they were united and united, and they showed that today.
"For centuries, many have tried to separate and divide us by the border on the Drina, but they have never succeeded in this evil plan and will never succeed, because the Drina river is not a border that separates Serbs, but a backbone that unites them," said the minister.
Đurđević Stamenkovski: Serbia has friends, because 106 countries did not vote for the shameful resolution
The Minister for Family Care and Demography Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski pointed out that "Serbia has friends, because 106 countries did not vote for the shameful Resolution on Srebrenica voting at the session of the United Nations General Assembly."
"Her representatives and sponsors invested millions in the lobby group, exerted unimaginable pressure on the states, agitated by all means for the adoption of the resolution, and they did all this in the fight against small but heroic Serbia," she said in a statement.
She pointed out that despite this, a far greater number of countries refused to "support this political document, which only deepens conflicts and encourages destabilization in the Balkans".
Vujović: Most of the world is still on the side of justice and truth
The Minister for Environmental Protection, Irena Vujović, said that most of the world is on the side of justice and truth, not force, and that this was shown by the vote in the UN General Assembly.
However, the vote showed another important thing - the sponsors and co-sponsors had to be careful because they had a statesman against them who saw through their intentions and confronted them with the same in front of the whole world," Vujović wrote on her Instagram account.
She thanked the larger part of the world that did not support the resolution, the part that did not succumb to blackmail and did not turn a blind eye to the truth.
"The national team of Serbia, led by President Aleksandar Vučeč, showed the world an example of statesmanship, resistance, determination and fighting for the interests of the country, despite the fact that a strong force was against us," she added and pointed out that the whole world had the opportunity to hear the voice of the land of freedom.
Popović: This was an exceptional opportunity to see who our historical friends are
Minister of Justice Maja Popović said that she is very proud of the steadfast fight that President Aleksandar Vučić led at the UN in New York to protect the dignity of the Serbian people.
"He showed great strength, exceptional courage, enormous knowledge and composure in the fight for historical truth, making almost superhuman efforts to defend the honor and reputation of Serbia and our people." This was an exceptional opportunity to make sure who are our historical friends and who are the political poltroons of the great powers. We thank everyone who stood up for the truth and justice," Popović wrote on Instagram.
Dodik: As far as the democratic world is concerned, the resolution failed
The President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik said that, as far as the democratic world is concerned and what they teach us, the resolution on Srebrenica did not receive a majority in the UN General Assembly today, but failed.
"At the vote, we saw that 84 countries voted for the resolution, which is not even an overwhelming majority," emphasized Dodik and pointed out that their failed plan was to accuse the Serbs of being a genocidal nation.
He repeated that the Government of the Republika Srpska raised the issue of peaceful separation from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, because, as he pointed out, we have no reason to stay and live together in Bosnia and Herzegovina after this.
He noted that close to 110 countries did not vote or were against or abstained.
"This is a failed resolution and that means the UN did not support it." Their plan to impose genocide and moral disqualification on the Serbs did not succeed," said the president of Republika Srpska and added that the Americans will say that 84 votes "for" are enough.
"I would ask according to which principle it is enough," Dodik told reporters in East Sarajevo and said that he would not be proud if he were in the position of those who worked on the resolution.
Because, as he stated, we are taught from the West that the democratic majority is the one that is more than half of the total number, and they do not have it.
Stevandić: The West has just experienced the biggest slap in the face
The President of the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska, Nenad Stevandić, said today that, regardless of the result of the vote, Serbia won and added that it is again on the right side of history, and that the countries that voted for the adoption of the resolution on Srebrenica were blackmailed or bribed, and that since tomorrow begins the first day of a new era of international relations.
Stevandić says that once again in history Serbia has been given a great burden and, as he says, the honor of once again carrying the end of an era and the beginning of a new era on its back.
"More than half of the world and much more than two-thirds of humanity, if you look at the number of countries that voted, were on the side of Serbia. And those who voted voted under blackmail and out of self-interest and again failed to have half the countries in the world. Which means that the collective West, which blackmails and bribes people because of its geopolitical interests, has just experienced the biggest slap in the face, and I think it has also experienced the beginning of a collapse," said Stevandic.
He pointed out that for the resolution on Srebrenica, 84 countries did not vote with intention, but their vote, as he states, was forced, and that some of the sponsoring countries have a distinctly anti-Serbian attitude due, as he states, to the fact that Serbia did not impose sanctions on Russia, to stay outside NATO and independent foreign policy.
"So, we have those countries that hate it and that's fine, but the vast majority of countries that voted, voted because they were blackmailed and because they create some kind of benefit, so they were either bribed or blackmailed." This makes this resolution completely meaningless and I repeat, no matter how uncomfortable it is for us, this is a new era of international relations. If you exclude those who were blackmailed and who voted under pressure or for some promised benefit, you will see that it is a minor number of countries and that neither the sponsors nor the Bosniaks, who were put, let's say, as some kind of part that should present other people's geopolitical interests. I am absolutely sure that all judgments that were made through bribery and blackmail are not valid and will not stand the test of history," said Stevandic for Tanjug.
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