Serb Republic President Milorad Dodik directed to the Parliament the text of a “Statement on Recognition of Armenian Genocide in 1915-17,” reports Radio and Television of Vojvodina (RTV), citing Dodik’s office website. The President proposed to adopt the statement during the coming session.
The statement reads:
“The Serb nation of the Serb Republic, as a freedom-loving nation, as well as a nation, which lost one third of its working population and a huge amount of natural and mineral resources during the World War I, expresses its solidarity with the efforts of the Armenian nation and supports it in its struggle for the recognition of historic justice and its terming as genocide, as an extermination perpetrated against Armenians during the fall of the Ottoman Empire.”
The statement mentions that the Serb Republic needs to “carry out work on the protection of human rights and international criminal law, underscore that a crime against humanity has no statute of limitations, and contribute to the struggle against the Genocide denial.”