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Foreign Minister Kotzias’ message on the 41st anniversary of the beginning of the Turkish invasion in Cyprus:

Australian Foreign minister Julie Bishop said on Friday that she was ‘sickened” after watching footage that emerged showing Russian-backed rebels looking through the luggage of passengers killed from the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 that was shot down over Ukraine.

Turkey's president and prime minister have released messages of peace on the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.

8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica by Serb troops in 1995. The massacre in the town, which was declared by the United Nations a safe haven for civilians, was later defined as genocide by two international courts.

Russian veto on British resolution on Srebrenica

The British draft resolution on Srebrenica has not been adopted by the United Nations Security Council, because Russia vetoed it.

Earlier in the day, Russia suggested that the document should not be put up for a vote at all.

The United Nations Security Council has failed to pass a resolution which would have called the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica as "genocide".

Russia, a permanent UNSC member, has blocked the resolution which would have coincided with the 20th anniversary since as many as 8000 men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb troops in 1995.

The British draft resolution on Srebrenica has not been adopted by the United Nations Security Council, because Russia vetoed it.

Earlier in the day, Russia suggested that the document should not be put up for a vote at all.

Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on July 7 his government unanimously agreed to send him to a July 11 commemoration of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, hours after the United Nations Security Council postponed debate over a resolution to mark the 20th anniversary. 

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has asked Russia to veto at the United Nations Security Council a British resolution on Srebrenica

Nikolic made the request in a letter he sent to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, B92 has been able to confirm on Saturday.

Washington's UN envoy accused Russia on June 11 of spinning "outright lies" on Ukraine designed to hide the Kremlin's direct involvement in a war it launched to thwart Kiev's pro-Western drive.

Kosovo's Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci has announced that Pristina will soon bring "a genocide claim" against Serbia, "and request damages."

He said this during Tuesday's United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting on Kosovo and Metohija, and added that "appropriate documentation" was prepared for this."