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The draft resolution declaring July 11 the International Day of Remembrance of the Genocide in Srebrenica will be presented on April 17 in a closed meeting at the United Nations.
For the final resolution, which is still being worked on, UN member countries will be able to declare at the session of the UN General Assembly at the beginning of May, reports the Balkan Service of Radio Free Europe.
In July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces killed over 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica.
The crime was recognized as genocide by the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
The UN draft resolution calls for the unreserved condemnation of any denial of the genocide in Srebrenica and urges UN members to preserve established facts and develop appropriate programs through their education systems in order to prevent future revisionism and genocide.
It also condemns actions that glorify those convicted of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, including those responsible for the genocide in Srebrenica.
The draft resolution also emphasizes the importance of completing the process of finding and identifying all victims of the genocide in Srebrenica and calls for the continuation of the criminal prosecution of the perpetrators of the genocide.
Its initiators are Germany and Rwanda, but, as it is unofficially understood, the United States, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Finland, Jordan, New Zealand, Turkey and other countries will participate in the creation of the text.
For years, official Belgrade opposes the adoption of resolutions or statements that describe the crime in Srebrenica as genocide.
Serbian officials say that a terrible crime took place in Srebrenica, but they do not accept that it was genocide.
To date, more than 50 people have been sentenced to more than 700 years in prison for genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica. /REL
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