Budimir: After the Srebrenica resolution, legal sanctions against Serbia, Republika Srpska, and Serbs will begin

Željko Budimir, Minister for Scientific-Technological Development and Higher Education of Republika Srpska, believes there is a real danger of revising the lawsuit of BiH against Serbia. He adds that there is no doubt that following the resolution on Srebrenica, legal sanctions against Serbia, Republika Srpska, and the Serbian people will begin.

Budimir, who is also a professor of international relations, stated that the revision of the genocide lawsuit BiH against Serbia is possible, especially in the current circumstances where international law seems to have vanished.

• The goal of the resolution is not to solve any problems, as they say, but to open political and legal processes against Republika Srpska, Serbia, and the Serbian people. This is the backdrop of the resolution, as well as opening Pandora’s box which aims to nullify all the progress that has occurred between the peoples and between Serbia and BiH – Budimir told “Večernje Novosti.”

He emphasized that there is no doubt that after the resolution in the UN General Assembly, definite legal sanctions against the Serbian people, Serbia, and Republika Srpska will begin, and that two legal processes will occur.

• One is the strict application of the “Inzko Law,” which will penalize the denial of genocide in BiH, followed by lawsuits against Serbia. We are deceiving ourselves if we think that there are rational elements that should speak about coexistence and reconciliation in BiH – said Budimir.

Regarding the formal procedures around the revision of the lawsuit, Budimir assessed that it is difficult to happen, but as he points out, if one knows how decisions were made in the ICTY and the Court of BiH, it is clear that all processes are interconnected.

Budimir noted that based on the ICTY verdicts, a basis was sought to bring about a resolution on the “genocide” in Srebrenica, after a failed attempt to pass it in the UN Security Council, and now it is being taken to the General Assembly.

• It is not done for moral satisfaction, but for the discreditation of a nation, in this case, the Serbian. The goal is to remove the Serb people from the political-historical position achieved by the Dayton Agreement – Budimir evaluated.

Source: RTRS