President: Resolution is moral step forward

President Boris Tadic says that the adoption of a resolution on the victims in Srebrenica would represent a positive step forward. It would represent progress in respect of ethic and all other values and in relation to the constant need of the societies in the Balkans to mourn only their own victims, Tanjug quoted him as saying. President: Resolution is moral step forward "All nations are ready to demonstrate that they have understanding for the suffering of their own people and the close ones. But, it is very important to show sympathy and empathy when it comes to somebody else's suffering and trouble. Particularly in the Western Balkans as such a move would truly represent a step forward in relation to the attitude of the past," Tadic told the news agency. The Serbian president pointed out that the modification of the system of values is a prerequisite for the regional societies to become better and more functional, and to improve their attitude to each particular individual, but also a precondition of the EU integration. "The whole topic that has been raised today - if there will be one or two resolutions - and the manner in which different home and foreign MPs approach it, has persuaded me that the only possible and right approach is the one including both resolutions. In the manner, we do not equalize or compare the victims, since anyone doing that would completely miss the political and ethic point," Tadic said. According to him, the sympathy for the Srebrenica victims would in no way exclude Serbia's right and obligation to remember its own victims. Commenting the criticism coming from foreign countries, but also from Serbia itself, in view of Serbia's initiative to compose two resolutions on the victims of the war conflicts in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), Tadic said that he expected such reactions and that they persuade him that the idea about two separate resolutions is the right one. "There will always be objections coming from the left and the right when decisions concerning atrocious wars and crimes are rendered, and the crime in Srebrenica was really monstrous, but no one will ever be entirely satisfied with the outcome," Tadic said. Boris Tadic (Tanjug)

President: Resolution is moral step forward

"All nations are ready to demonstrate that they have understanding for the suffering of their own people and the close ones. But, it is very important to show sympathy and empathy when it comes to somebody else's suffering and trouble. Particularly in the Western Balkans as such a move would truly represent a step forward in relation to the attitude of the past," Tadić told the news agency.

The Serbian president pointed out that the modification of the system of values is a prerequisite for the regional societies to become better and more functional, and to improve their attitude to each particular individual, but also a precondition of the EU integration.

"The whole topic that has been raised today - if there will be one or two resolutions - and the manner in which different home and foreign MPs approach it, has persuaded me that the only possible and right approach is the one including both resolutions. In the manner, we do not equalize or compare the victims, since anyone doing that would completely miss the political and ethic point," Tadić said.

According to him, the sympathy for the Srebrenica victims would in no way exclude Serbia's right and obligation to remember its own victims.

Commenting the criticism coming from foreign countries, but also from Serbia itself, in view of Serbia's initiative to compose two resolutions on the victims of the war conflicts in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), Tadić said that he expected such reactions and that they persuade him that the idea about two separate resolutions is the right one.

"There will always be objections coming from the left and the right when decisions concerning atrocious wars and crimes are rendered, and the crime in Srebrenica was really monstrous, but no one will ever be entirely satisfied with the outcome," Tadić said.