WORLD NEWS FOR MONTENEGRO DIASPORA
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AUTHOR: M.J.
Representatives of 14 non-governmental organizations and civil activists, Jovana Marović and Dina Bajramspahić, sent today to the Prime Minister, Milojko Spajić, an initiative for Montenegro to sponsor the UN Resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica.
Considering that the draft resolution of the United Nations on the genocide in Srebrenica will be presented on April 17 this year in New York in a closed session, we invite you to be consistent in relation to the current position of Montenegro and join the countries that co-sponsor this Resolution. Since it is understood that Montenegro will vote for the Resolution on May 2nd, we believe that it should go one step further and join the group of currently 18 countries of the world that co-sponsored it and that understand the importance of building peace. From the countries of the region, so far Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and North Macedonia have announced that they will be co-sponsors of the aforementioned resolution - the letter to the Prime Minister states.
As the most serious candidate for membership in the European Union, they add in the letter, Montenegro must demonstrate the capacity not only to implement the decisions of international courts and respect its international obligations, but also to show in practice that it cherishes the universal values on which the community it wants to live rests. connect.
Moreover, by nurturing regional cooperation and good neighborly relations for which it was recognized, Montenegro must significantly contribute to raising the culture of remembrance of the victims of the genocide in Srebrenica to the international level. The majority of Montenegro wants to honor the victims of the Srebrenica genocide in a dignified manner, as they have done so far - they state in the letter.
They remind that the UN resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica builds on the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, UN Resolution 827 on the establishment of the International Tribunal for War Crimes in the former Yugoslavia, the judgment of the International Court of Justice from of February 2007, which declared the crime in Srebrenica a genocide, as well as the verdicts of the Hague Tribunal, by which seven people have been sentenced to death for the genocide committed against the Bosniaks in Srebrenica.
In 2009, the Parliament of Montenegro adopted the Declaration on the acceptance of the resolution of the European Parliament (EP) on Srebrenica in 2009, and in 2021 the Resolution on the genocide of Srebrenica, for which the majority of 55 deputies voted, while 19 were against, seven abstained ("Official Gazette of Montenegro", No. 66/2021 of 21.6.2021). Bearing in mind that the denial of the genocide in Srebrenica did not stop even after the adoption of that Resolution, and that Remembrance Day was not established even though the Resolution provides for it, it is clear that not enough has been done to accept the facts and responsibly provide for a common future. Accordingly, we expect that by formally signing the form on the co-sponsorship of the United Nations Resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica, you will show not only that you stand by everything that is written in these documents, but also that you will put Montenegro on the right side of history, where it always belongs. any place - they conclude in the letter.
