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Vucic: US, Germany step up lobbying for Srebrenica resolution Beta 3–4 minutes _____ Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said Thursday in New York that the US, Germany and other countries have stepped up lobbying for a resolution on Srebrenica thanks to Belgrade’s campaign against its adoption. At the end of his five-day visit to New York where he sought to persuade representatives of numerous countries not to vote for the resolution on Srebrenica at the UN General Assembly on May 2, Vucic told Serbian media that “the Americans, Germans, and others have set up headquarters in Vienna” and that they “would never have done this if Serbia hadn’t done a good job.” “They gathered in Vienna and counted the votes they have (for adopting the resolution), they counted the votes against one small Serbia. They counted who will vote ‘for’ out of the 190 countries with voting rights and made pressure lists. We did our job, but now they will push and harass them,” said Vucic. He said that Serbia’s representatives in New York, including Serbian Ambassador in Washington Marko Djuric and former Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic, had with five European countries they consider friendly and which “they believe could refuse to vote as ordered.” “Many in the world know that the resolution has nothing to do with justice and international law, but with politics and geopolitical interests,” said the Serbian president. He reiterated that Germany took the lead in lobbying for the resolution which declares July 11 as the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Srebrenica Genocide. “When America raises an eyebrow, 70 people rush to vote as the Americans say. The Americans were not the leaders here, but the Germans, who are conducting the campaign for the adoption of the resolution themselves. It’s a big game, everything is boiling in the UN, and we are doing more than is realistic,” said Vucic. Vucic also commented on the Serbian June 2 elections, saying that, if invited, he will join the election campaign of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) that he is a member of. “I will certainly join in at some point, but I have no intention of doing it before, say, May 10 or 16. I have much more important things to attend to than party matters. I will help later on, if my party colleagues and friends ask me to. They asked me to give them my name for the ticket, I agreed to that, that is all right, it goes without saying, and if they ask me to get involved, I will help them and I believe we will win,” he said. Asked for his opinion of the election boycott by some opposition parties, Vucic said that topic does not interest him, and that “nobody in Serbia is thinking about that.” “People are interested in whether we will preserve national pride, how the state will respond to all pressures, and everything else. Believe me when I say that, at this moment, nobody is thinking about what will happen on June 2,” said Vucic. -- http:www.antic.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SERBIAN NEWS NETWORK" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/senet/056601da97c1%24b8601d80%2429205880%24%40gmail.com.
