Remembering Srebrenica

An exhibition presenting the most important evidence from the Hague Tribunal’s Srebrenica genocide trials opened in Belgrade as part of events to mark the 20th anniversary of the massacres.

Thousands of people and officials from more than 80 states will take part in a commemoration ceremony at the Srebrenica memorial centre for the victims of the July 1995 massacres.

Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond expressed disappointment on Wednesday because a British draft resolution on Srebrenica was not adopted by the UN.

Almost 10,000 people began a 110-kilometre-long march from the Bosnian village of Nezuk to Srebrenica to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the genocide.

Russia and other permanent UN Security Council members are trying to come up with a compromise text of the Srebrenica resolution.

This was announced on Wednesday by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov, who spoke for Sputnik.

International courts have found that Serbia had not committed genocide in Srebrenica and that fact cannot be changed by the announced UN resolution.

The U.S. and Britain will only have the right to speak about the crime in Srebrenica once they propose a day of remembrance of NATO's 1999 bombing of Serbia.

Media reports about a proposed UN General Assembly resolution to declare an international day of remembrance for the victims of the Srebrenica Genocide have sparked conflicting reactions.