Vanuatu, Antigua and Barbuda and Malawi withdraw their co-sponsorship of Srebrenica resolution

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Vanuatu, Antigua and Barbuda and Malawi have withdrawn their co-sponsorship of the resolution on Srebrenica, is the latest news from New York where the UN General Assembly session on the draft is in progress.

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Although, according to the procedure of the General Assembly, decisions shoudl be made by consensus, which requires all countries to agree on the text of a draft resolution, the proposal for a resolution on Srebrenica will be voted on, since Serbia, Russia and China oppose its adoption.

During the voting in the UN General Assembly, countries do not have the right to veto, so each of the 193 member states has the right to one vote. Although Montenegro is not among the co-sponsors, it has been announced that country will vote for the adoption of the resolution, after submitting amendments to the draft.

The Permanent Mission of Serbia to the UN appealed to the co-sponsors to withdraw the text of the resolution in the interest of everyone, primarily the people in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), but also of all UN members, so that gping forward member states would not be put in a position to vote on a sensitive issue that is supposed to require consensus.

(Telegraf.rs)