Vucic: Truth not one-sided, UN resolution to brand victims genocidal

NEW YORK - Addressing a panel that heard testimonies of Serb victims and witnesses of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday the truth was not one-sided and that passing a draft UN Srebrenica resolution would brand those victims as members of a genocidal nation.

Vucic called on all UN General Assembly members not to adopt the draft resolution.

"I am deeply touched by the testimonies of all the Serbs who came here to testify of what they went through 30 years ago," Vucic said at the panel, hosted by the Serbian Permanent Mission to the UN at the UN headquarters in New York.

"Those people are not politicians but ordinary people, and they will all feel very bad if the resolution is passed, because they are victims," Vucic said, noting that, if passed, the resolution would brand them as members of a genocidal nation.

"Serbia has never been silent, we have never been silent about the terrible events in Srebrenica - we have arrested, apprehended and extradited anyone who was individually responsible for the terrible crimes that took place in Srebrenica," Vucic noted.