Skopje, 17 April 2024 (MIA) — First Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Bojan Marichikj, commenting on Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani's announcement on North Macedonia's co-sponsorship of the UN Srebrenica genocide resolution, said the country's position on Srebrenica had been clearly established by a Declaration in Parliament in 2010.

"Macedonia's position is very clear and established by a Declaration in Parliament in early 2010, when our Parliament unanimously supported an EP resolution on Srebrenica condemning it as genocide," Marichikj said in a Kanal 5 TV appearance.

"However," he added, "that stain cannot be cast on the entire Serbian people or Serbia. The responsibility towards Srebrenica should be individualized and that's why there are international courts and tribunals." 

On Osmani's statement that he would propose that North Macedonia withdraw from the Open Balkans initiative, Marichikj said that all initiatives benefitting Macedonian citizens should continue. Membership in the Open Balkans, he said, should not be politicized. mr/