Srebrenica

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.

Serbia’s justice ministry has formally requested the extradition of Naser Oric, the former commander of Bosniak forces in Srebrenica, who was arrested in Switzerland this month.

Serbia has officially requested the extradition of the former commander of the Muslim army in Srebrenica, Naser Oric.

Oric was arrested as he was traveling to Switzerland where he was to attend the marking of the 20th anniversary of the crime in Srebrenica.

The proposed resolution on Srebrenica at the UN Security Council "will complicate the situation in the Balkans" Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.

Bosnian Presidency chairman Mladen Ivanic on Friday announced that he will not attend commemorations in Srebrenica on July 11, the anniversary of the crime.

"If Bosniaks want it and if that is not an additional difficulty for them, I will be ready to honor Muslim victims in Srebrenica," says Aleksandar Vucic.

The draft resolution on Srebrenica is unacceptable for Russia and such as it is now, "has not right to exist," says Russian Ambassador to Bosnia Petr Ivantsov.

According to him, if the resolution is to be considered it must be objective.

The British ambassador to Sarajevo said that a proposed UN Security Council resolution condemning the 1995 genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica was not an attack on Serbs.

International courts have found that Serbia had not committed genocide in Srebrenica and that fact cannot be changed by the announced UN resolution.

Petar Ivancov, the Russian ambassador to Sarajevo, told Bosnia's Dnevni avaz daily newspaper on Thursday that Russia does not deny that the crime committed in Srebrenica in 1995 was an act of genocide.