Vučić's address at the the session of the UN Security Council VIDEO

President Aleksandar Vui said at the beginning of his speech that he would first talk about Serbia's relations with the Mechanism, and then about the work of that body.
"The Republic of Serbia has raised the issue of serving sentences in Serbia several times, but that has not happened yet. It is natural that Serbia wants its citizens to serve their sentences in Serbia," Vucic said.
He points out that there is a special problem on the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, where they now want to try Serbs who have already been tried. He states that Serbia seriously understands its obligations to cooperate with the Mechanism.
"That territory is under the temporary mandate of the UN. The president of the mechanism submitted a report on the alleged non-fulfillment of the rules, because Petar Joji and Vjerica Radeta were not extradited," said Vui.
"The first decision from June 2018 that the criminal prosecution of Petar Jojic and Vjerica Radeta should be transferred to Serbia. The Republic of Serbia conducted an appropriate process and gave guarantees and accepted that it be a supervised process and take measures provided for in Article 6 of the Mechanism Statute. Serbia has extradited all persons accused by the prosecutor's office," he explains.
Serbia condemns the crime in Srebrenica, there is no doubt about that, he adds. However, he criticizes the Hague Tribunal, stating that no one was held responsible for the crimes committed against Serbs.
"Members of other nations have not been tried, despite international legal norms. I will try to show you plastically how international justice is tailored. Serbs have been sentenced to a total of 1.138 years in prison, to eight life sentences. At the same time, the Hague tribunal has not...

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