Abazović leads the Montenegrin delegation at the commemoration of the anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica

Prime Minister Dritan Abazović will attend the commemoration of the 27th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica and the funeral of 48 identified victims from July 1995, which will be held on July 11 in Potočari.

The delegation will also include Justice Minister Marko Kovač, Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Policy, European Integration and Regional Cooperation and Minister of European Affairs Jovana Marović, Minister of Public Administration Maraš Dukaj.

The delegation also includes the Deputy General Secretary of the Government, Lir Harasani, Chief of the Cabinet of the Prime Minister Ana Rašović, Advisor to the Prime Minister for Digital Media Radivoje Koprivica and Advisor to the Prime Minister for Media Miloš Perišić.

The platform states that on June 13, Abazović received the Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Montenegro, Branimir Jukić, and the delegation of the Organizing Committee, headed by the deputy mayor of the municipality of Srebrenica and the president of the Organizing Committee, Hamdija Fejzić.

On this occasion, Abazović accepted the invitation of the Organizing Committee for the Prime Minister to attend the commemoration and funeral in Potočari again this year, on July 11.

"Prime Minister Abazović, on behalf of the Government of Montenegro, will honor the victims and, in the spirit of reconciliation, point out the unequivocal position of the Government of Montenegro condemning the genocide in Srebrenica and all other war crimes committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. The participation of our delegation once again confirms Montenegro's determination to, through the support and defense of democratic civilizational values, make its full contribution to the preservation of peace, reconciliation and not allow a similar crime to be repeated anywhere in the world in the future," the platform states.

In July 2009, Montenegro adopted the Declaration on acceptance of the Resolution of the European Parliament (EP) on Srebrenica, as one of the first countries to do so, after the aforementioned Resolution was adopted by the European Parliament. With this, the Parliament of Montenegro condemned in the strongest terms the crime committed against over 8.000 civilians in Srebrenica in the period between July 11 and 19, 1995, as well as all other crimes committed during the 1991 - 2001 conflict on the territory of the former SFRY.

"The resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica was adopted by the Parliament of Montenegro on June 17, 2021, in which it "confirms that the genocide took place on the soil of Europe after the Second World War, in which over 8.000 civilians of Bosniak nationality perished." The resolution, among other things, " condemns attempts to ascribe responsibility or guilt to Serbs, Bosniaks, Croats or any other people for genocide, crimes against humanity or other crimes, because responsibility can be exclusively individual, and no people can be labeled as genocidal or criminal. platform for Abazović's participation in the commemoration of the 27th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica.