Srebrenica
Hungary’s authorities has rejected the UN’s proposal to declare July 11 as a world day of remembrance for the victims of the Srebrenica genocide. International Minister Péter Szijjártó justified this place by saying that they didn’t wish to “foment extraordinarily harmful conflicts within the Western Balkans”.
“There isn’t a debate regarding the truth that terribly unhappy and tragic occasions befell in Srebrenica in 1995,” the minister stated in response to questions from journalists at a discussion board in Nyíregyháza on Friday. Every part have to be achieved to make sure that such horrors by no means occur once more. “For us, nonetheless, the query within the UN Normal Meeting was whether or not such a decision, thirty years later and within the present scenario, can assist to calm tensions within the Western Balkans.”
For Szijjártó, the second for introducing the memorial day was extraordinarily unlucky. Many states within the UN noticed it the identical manner, which is why the initiative was solely supported by 84 member states. Along with 19 states that rejected the draft, 68 states abstained. “Of the 193 member states of the United Nations, a minority of 84 states pushed by a decision,” the overseas minister stated, illustrating the connection.
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