UN General Assembly approves resolution recognizing events in Srebrenica in 1995 as genocide
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On Thursday, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) voted to recognize the events of 1995 in Srebrenica as genocide.
Eighty-four countries supported the resolution, 19 opposed it, and 68 countries abstained.
The meeting was broadcast by the UN television service.
A resolution on the establishment of an International Day of Reflection and Remembrance on the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica was proposed by Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina and a number of other countries. Serbia and ethnic Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina have strongly opposed it.