Srebrenica massacre

The Russian mission at the United Nations in New York will on Monday submit a draft resolution on Bosnia-Herzegovina to the UN Security Council.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has called on Bosnian Presidency chairman Mladen Ivanic to schedule a meeting of that body.

The purpose would be "to take a stand on the proposed resolution on Srebrenica," the president said during a news conference after a session of the governments of Serbia and the Serb entity in Bosnia, the Serb Republic (RS) in Belgrade on Friday.

The rapporteur for Bosnia has said that the European parliament "decided for now" to mark the anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre only with a debate.

Passing a resolution at this time would not be helpful for Bosnia-Herzegovina and the region, said Cristian Dan Preda.

The committee organising the 20th anniversary commemoration of the 1995 massacres said on Tuesday that it will postpone the planned July 11 ceremony until Oric, the wartime Bosnian Army commander in Srebrenica, is released from detention in Switzerland.

Unless wartime commander of Muslims in Srebrenica Naser Oric has been released by June 30, the Srebrenica commemoration will be postponed.

This was confirmed by President of the Mothers of Srebrenica Association Hatidza Mehmedovic and by the organizing committee set up to mark this event, the Tanjug agency has reported.

The public debate about a proposed resolution on Srebrenica "shows how difficult it is to establish a common interpretation of history in the Western Balkans."

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu will pay a one-day visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina next month to attend memorial ceremonies marking the 20th anniversary of the massacre in Srebrenica, in which Bosnian Serbs killed nearly 8,000 Muslims during the 1992-95 war.

The Serbian authorities wrote to the permanent members of the UN Security Council, saying that a proposed resolution condemning the Srebrenica genocide would cause destabilisation in the region.

Serbia understand neither the meaning nor the purpose of the resolution on Srebrenica, states a letter Belgrade has sent to permanent UNSC members.

The Prosecution of Bosnia-Herzegovina has asked Switzerland "to return Naser Oric to Bosnia" - that is, not to extradite him to Serbia.

Oric is a former wartime commander of the Muslim forces in the Srebrenica area who is wanted in Serbia on war crimes charges, and was detained in Switzerland earlier this month.