Srebrenica

BRUSSELS - A UN resolution on Srebrenica will cause further division in the Balkans, and reaching a consensus on memorialising the past in a way that does not sow division is the best way to ensure it does not - and cannot - happen again, Serbian FM Marko Djuric wrote in an article for the politico.eu portal.

BELGRADE/JERUSALEM - Simon Wiesenthal Centre Director Efraim Zuroff said on Tuesday he hoped a UN Srebrenica genocide resolution would fail and noted that the UN General Assembly was the "worst place" to vote on the matter because it was a "political vote."

For the relatives of the Srebrenica massacre victims, forgiving feels impossible, nearly 30 years on.

But if Serbs in Bosnia and Belgrade stop denying and accept that the atrocity was an act of genocide, as states a draft UN resolution due to be put to the vote Thursday, that would enable finding peace, some survivors say.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic said on Monday Gabonese PM Raymond Ndonga Sima had informed him Gabon would not vote for a UN General Assembly resolution on Srebrenica.

Vucevic also thanked Gabon for its full support for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Serbia regarding Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic hosted a lunch for Serbian Patriarch Porfirije, the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church and Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik on Friday to thank them for their assistance in the fight against the adoption of a UN General Assembly resolution on Srebrenica.

BELGRADE - Due to the proposed UN General Assembly resolution on Srebrenica, Serbia will seek a resolution on the plight of Serbs at the hands of Germany and Croatia during WWII, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Friday.

Vucic said adopting a Srebrenica resolution would open a Pandora's box.

NEW YORK - A UN General Assembly session on a draft resolution on Srebrenica has been scheduled for May 23, according to the UNGA website.

After two postponements, a debate on the draft was due to be held on Wednesday but has meanwhile been postponed again for another week.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Marko Djuric said on Monday the Serbian MFA had been informed that Bosnia and Herzegovina's ambassador to the UN in Geneva was under pressure over his positions on a Srebrenica resolution and, more broadly, over the situation in the BiH.

NEW YORK - Serbian Ambassador to the UN Marko Djuric called on UN Security Council member states on Tuesday to draft a new resolution on Srebrenica that would have the consensus of all three entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, lead to progress and reconciliation and give equal treatment to all victims of the war in the former Yugoslavia.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Monday he had hosted a lunch for ambassadors of African states to discuss a UN draft Srebrenica resolution and a renewal of Serbia's old friendships with African countries.