Šehović: With the adoption of the Resolution on Srebrenica, truth and justice won

With the adoption of the Resolution on Srebrenica at the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), which establishes the International Day of Remembrance for the victims of this terrible crime, the largest and most monstrous of its kind after the Second World War, but also condemns the denial of genocide and the glorification of war criminals, truth and justice won , announced the president of the Social Democrats (SD), Damir Šehović.

"By the way, this is the least that the civilized world could do at this moment, faced with its own share of responsibility for failing to prevent it at one time. The region, if there is enough statesmanship and wisdom, has been given an opportunity for political catharsis , but also for a new joint beginning, this time on sound ideological and value foundations. This outcome of the vote in New York restores faith that human values ​​are universal, that they know no borders, and that the moral compass of humanity is nevertheless unshakable," the press release states.

Šehović pointed out that it is an "irony of fate" that, as he says, the biggest promoters of this resolution are those who opposed it the most.

"Their rather unconvincing resistance and the manipulative narrative that accompanied it only further strengthened the need for such a document, highlighting its critical importance in the fight against revisionism and genocide denial. Although Montenegro, by supporting this resolution, formally remained attached to the Western value system, which otherwise, with full right, a bitter taste remained due to, to put it mildly, the inability of the current government to manage this, not a political, but primarily an ethical issue , mutually quarreling authorities, the deep division within the parliamentary majority has been exposed. Now it is crystal clear that at least half of that majority does not understand that without facing the past, there is no future, and especially not the European one, which is full of power to recognize key historical moments, and to respond to them adequately and without cheap daily political calculations, is not sustainable, and even less European," the statement reads.

"The Social Democrats of Montenegro will continue the fight for truth, justice and European values. We will not give up until we build a society that is based on a correct progressive worldview. Our vision of Montenegro is clear: a society that does not run away from the past, but faces it, as would ensure a better, fairer and more prosperous future for everyone," concluded Šehović.