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PARLIAMENT TO DISCUSS DECLARATION ON CRIMES
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May 4 2010
Serbia
BELGRADE -- The Serbian Parliament Collegium will discuss a draft
declaration condemning crimes against Serbs, it has been announced.
These crimes were committed during the 1990s wars in Croatia,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo during the NATO bombing.
Parliament Speaker Slavica Ä~PukiÄ~G-DejanoviÄ~G distributed the draft
to MPs, which will be discussed on Wednesday. The document does not
state any concrete crimes.
Ruling Democrats (DS) spokeswoman Jelena Trivan said that her party's
proposal to call upon the public and parliaments in the region to
condemn crimes against Serb population had been adopted.
"Nobody can interfere in the affairs of other countries, but we
can express our expectation that those countries will condemn crimes
committed against Serbs and contribute to the reconciliation process,"
said she.
The DS spokeswoman added that their proposal also included calling upon
international organizations which had been dealing with investigations
and processing of war crimes to finish what they had started and
convict the perpetrators.
Chief of opposition Serb Radical Party (SRS) parliamentary group
Dragan TodoroviÄ~G said that the proposed declaration was pointless,
stating that it was "impossible that authorities did not realize that
not only has no one accepted to apologize for the crimes against Serbs
but that some were celebrating the crimes as their military successes".
He stressed that SRS was going to the Collegium in order to request
its two draft declarations to also be put on the parliament's agenda -
one condemning the Armenian genocide, and the other condemning crimes
against Serbs, Roma and Jews during World War II in Croatia.
Chief of opposition DSS parliamentary group MiloÅ¡ AligrudiÄ~G stated
that his party officials would not attend the meeting tomorrow, and
repeated that DSS believed all crimes needed to be condemned together.
The Serbian parliament recently adopted a resolution condemning the
1995 Srebrenica massacre.
"The proposed declaration condemning crimes against Serbs doesn't have
political significance as far as we're concerned, and it's done only
as a complementary act of Srebrenica declaration," said AligrudiÄ~G.
B92
http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-a rticle.php?yyyy=2010&mm=05&dd=04&nav_i d=66920
May 4 2010
Serbia
BELGRADE -- The Serbian Parliament Collegium will discuss a draft
declaration condemning crimes against Serbs, it has been announced.
These crimes were committed during the 1990s wars in Croatia,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo during the NATO bombing.
Parliament Speaker Slavica Ä~PukiÄ~G-DejanoviÄ~G distributed the draft
to MPs, which will be discussed on Wednesday. The document does not
state any concrete crimes.
Ruling Democrats (DS) spokeswoman Jelena Trivan said that her party's
proposal to call upon the public and parliaments in the region to
condemn crimes against Serb population had been adopted.
"Nobody can interfere in the affairs of other countries, but we
can express our expectation that those countries will condemn crimes
committed against Serbs and contribute to the reconciliation process,"
said she.
The DS spokeswoman added that their proposal also included calling upon
international organizations which had been dealing with investigations
and processing of war crimes to finish what they had started and
convict the perpetrators.
Chief of opposition Serb Radical Party (SRS) parliamentary group
Dragan TodoroviÄ~G said that the proposed declaration was pointless,
stating that it was "impossible that authorities did not realize that
not only has no one accepted to apologize for the crimes against Serbs
but that some were celebrating the crimes as their military successes".
He stressed that SRS was going to the Collegium in order to request
its two draft declarations to also be put on the parliament's agenda -
one condemning the Armenian genocide, and the other condemning crimes
against Serbs, Roma and Jews during World War II in Croatia.
Chief of opposition DSS parliamentary group MiloÅ¡ AligrudiÄ~G stated
that his party officials would not attend the meeting tomorrow, and
repeated that DSS believed all crimes needed to be condemned together.
The Serbian parliament recently adopted a resolution condemning the
1995 Srebrenica massacre.
"The proposed declaration condemning crimes against Serbs doesn't have
political significance as far as we're concerned, and it's done only
as a complementary act of Srebrenica declaration," said AligrudiÄ~G.