Sunday, January 18, 2009

The European parlament adopted the resolution on Srebrenica


International Institute for Middle East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) from Ljubljana, Slovenia, on the occasion of the adoption of a resolution on Srebrenica, which today is 15th January 2009. The issued European Parliament (EP) at the plenary session in Strasbourg, issued the following statement to the public:

Today 15th January 2009. The European Parliament (EP) on this year's first plenary session in Strasbourg adopted a resolution on Srebrenica, which the EP calls on the Member States the EU and the Western Balkans, to mark the 11th July day to remember the genocide in Srebrenica. The resolution, which was jointly predložile all political groups in the EP, it also noted that the recall is necessary and appropriate gift to all the victims of crimes, which were committed during the wars in the Balkans.

The resolution was adopted exactly three months from when he was in Brussels, the delegation, "the Association of Srebrenica mothers and Žepe", which is the European Parliament Deputy Diana Wallis from the political group of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), izručila draft resolution on Srebrenica in the presence of deputies in the Slovenian EP Jelka Kacina (LDS / ALDE). Diana Wallis last year together with the Slovenian deputy in the European Parliament Jelkom Kacinom attended commemoration in Potocari (Srebrenica). Presenting a proposal in the EP resolution was attended by the supreme leader of Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina Reise-l-ulema Dr. Mustafa Ceric.

In the explanation of the proposal resolution Slovenian deputy in the EP Jelko Kacin is among other things, said: "Srebrenica and whitewash the crimes and destruction of mass graves. Srebrenica have incorporated into our common historical memory and the foundations of EU enlargement to the Western Balkans region. We should not adhere to the discriminatory and exclusive stereotypes about individual nations, we must fight against the collective guilt. responsible for genocide in Srebrenica must be to The Hague, the court, in prison, we must help build and enable European future for Srebrenica, for the people and the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Especially to thanked the conference president, which was unanimously supported the proposal, that young Bosniaks and Serbs from Srebrenica, together, every year, invite the EP, to outside Srebrenica, without the pressures and stresses of domestic mid-thought, planned and built a common and brighter future for Srebrenica and the whole of BiH. This resolution is not aimed at the past. Although the talk about the dead is intended for the living and their better future. "

International Institute IFIMES welcomes adoption of resolution and hope that will be the Western Balkans and respond to mark 11th July / July as a day of mourning and to remember the genocide committed in Srebrenica. Mothers of Srebrenica, which had lost the war in their family, are aware that the future of the Western Balkans is not possible without truth, justice and reconciliation. They want a stable and safe region for all the generations that come with the hope that such crimes will never again happen.

International Institute IFIMES warned that local politicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the Western Balkans must not misuse adopted a resolution on Srebrenica for the extraction of political points, but the opportunity should be used as a step forward towards the necessary reconciliation in the Western Balkans.

As written in the resolution reached, the genocide in Srebrenica took place in July / July 1995, when Serb forces under the command of General Ratko Mladic, who was directly subordinate to the then President of the Republic of Srpska Radovan Karadzic, killed more than 8000 Bosnian Muslims ( Bosniaks) primarily men and boys, and deported nearly 25,000 women, children and elderly. So committed is the biggest war crime in Europe after the end of World War II.

The European Parliament is the only EU institutions, which directly represents the citizens of member states, because it is so much more important that the resolution passed with the support of all poslaničkih group, which gives a special stamp recently okončanoj year of Intercultural Dialogue in Europe, said in saopćenju International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies in Ljubljana

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