Jeremic convened for April 10 a UN General Assembly public discussion on the results of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). In an interview with Tanjug news agency, he said that what was said in the discussion would become an official UN document distributed worldwide.
"That will become an official document for those who will write history. That's why the discussion is important and it's good that Serbia is at this place at this time, with the opportunity to respond to what it was de facto told with the decisions by the Hague tribunal's appeals chamber, that there was only one culprit and only one criminal side and that was the Serbian side," Jeremic was quoted as saying.
He does not think so and believes the participants in the debate will confirm such a view in a large number. He said he exerted his sovereign right as the president of the UN General Assembly to convene a public discussion on the work and role of ad hoc international criminal tribunals set up by the UN.
Jeremic said some did not like that and that there were attempts to pressure Serbia into scrapping the discussion.
He said the discussion would consist of two parts, with states participating in the first part and non-governmental organisations and prominent scholars in the second.
Jeremic was prompted to convene the discussion by the ICTY's acquittal of Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac.