The Vice-President of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) Abaz Dizdarević said that the fact that the Government has been avoiding making a statement regarding the co-sponsorship of the United Nations Resolution on the Srebrenica genocide is "deeply worrying".
"In this way, he is taking us back almost 30 years, trying to abuse a massacre that was unheard of in Europe after the Second World War for daily political purposes and returning debts to his financiers and coalition partners," he said.
He says that the Government, which presents itself as pro-European, dedicated to all those democratic values that are the heritage of the old continent, this was an ideal opportunity to show responsibility towards the past and "what, the fact is, happened in these areas, to publicly condemn the unprecedented crime, call him by his real name, so that the evil of killing innocent people just because they belong to a different religion or nation would never happen anywhere."
"We call on the Government of Montenegro, headed by Prime Minister Spaić, to publicly and precisely inform us what it is that they cannot agree with in the proposed text of the Resolution. The Resolution condemns any denial of genocide and calls on all UN members to preserve the established facts, including through their educational systems, in order to prevent revisionism. They also unreservedly condemn all acts of glorification of those convicted and responsible for the genocide in Srebrenica. What of this, gentlemen, is against your beliefs," asked Dizdarević.
"We invite you to make a civilizational step forward, to make a contribution to save the victims of Srebrenica from being forgotten, not only in the Balkans, but also beyond. Let's not allow oblivion to become their second death. There is no justification for not supporting the Resolution. It does not refer to the guilt of any nation, but it does not tolerate the fact that members of certain nations, instead of showing respect for innocent victims, show an intoxicated, pathological love for the killers and executioners of those victims," said the vice-president of DPS.
He appealed not to allow Montenegro to be a country where this issue will "serve as a stronghold for nationalist structures to deny genocide and glorify legally convicted war criminals, intimidation and intolerance towards minority peoples".
"Confronting the past is of fundamental importance. By co-sponsoring this resolution, Montenegro, as a full member of NATO, shows its commitment to European and Euro-Atlantic values. This belongs to us, because Montenegro is the first country in the region to adopt a declaration in 2009 accepting the Resolution of the European parliament on Srebrenica, and condemned all other crimes committed during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. The Montenegrin people sincerely regret the victims of the genocide against the Bosniaks in Srebrenica," Dizdarević concluded.
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