Declaration on Serb victims next week

Parliamentary Speaker Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic said that a meeting would be held on Wednesday to discuss the declaration for condemning crimes against Serbs. She said that all MP groups would receive the text of the declaration, adding that they would have ten days to file any objections or suggestions. Declaration on Serb victims next week “There is a possibility that the session that is to begin on May 5 will be stopped in order to adopt this declaration,” Djukic-Dejanovic said. She said that she expects the parliamentary collegiums to include opinions from all other parties, since the For a European Serbia and SPS-JS coalitions have already had their say on the draft. Djukic-Dejanovic said that she is convinced that the declaration for condemning crimes against Serbs in the wars on the territory of the former Yugoslavia would be adopted in the same way that all previous acts have been passed. “I am convinced that members of opposition parties will be joining us in adopting the declaration,” she said. The draft condemns the crimes committed against Serbia citizens and all people of Serb nationality during the wars in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and in Serbia during the 1999 NATO-led bombings. The parliament has also called on regional assemblies, mainly from countries of the former Yugoslavia, to adopt a similar declaration, and to give full support to state and international institutions for processing criminals who committed these crimes, out of respect to the Serb victims. Slavica Djukic Dejanovic (Tanjug archive)

Declaration on Serb victims next week

“There is a possibility that the session that is to begin on May 5 will be stopped in order to adopt this declaration,” Đukić-Dejanović said.

She said that she expects the parliamentary collegiums to include opinions from all other parties, since the For a European Serbia and SPS-JS coalitions have already had their say on the draft.

Đukić-Dejanović said that she is convinced that the declaration for condemning crimes against Serbs in the wars on the territory of the former Yugoslavia would be adopted in the same way that all previous acts have been passed.

“I am convinced that members of opposition parties will be joining us in adopting the declaration,” she said.

The draft condemns the crimes committed against Serbia citizens and all people of Serb nationality during the wars in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and in Serbia during the 1999 NATO-led bombings.

The parliament has also called on regional assemblies, mainly from countries of the former Yugoslavia, to adopt a similar declaration, and to give full support to state and international institutions for processing criminals who committed these crimes, out of respect to the Serb victims.