Vucic: I am heading to New York to respond to those wishing to accuse Serbia

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced he would travel to New York on Monday evening for a UN General Assembly session on a Srebrenica resolution.

Vucic made the announcement at a press conference with EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi in Belgrade.

He thanked Varhelyi for investing a great deal of energy to advance the position of Serbia and the entire Western Balkans.

He also expressed gratitude to Varhelyi for his "precise words about there being no need for the existence of collective responsibility or about the impossibility of characterising an entire nation as the collective culprit for crimes committed."

"I thought I would be going to Kotor, as I have told you, with Sinisa Mali and Tanja Miscevic, but I have just received the information that a UNGA session, and a UN Security Council session that will precede it, will most likely be held on Wednesday so, as soon as we finish dinner, I will head to New York because someone has to respond to those who would like to accuse the Serbs as a genocidal nation," he said.

"I will give them the response they deserve," Vucic added.