European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell and European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Policy Oliver Farrelly said in a joint statement on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia, that “Europe has not forgotten what happened in this city. , and our own responsibility for the failure to prevent and stop the genocide”, emphasizing: “Stand up with the survivors of those events.”

The two European officials expressed “the hope, in the light of these dangerous times, that Bosnia and Herzegovina will move towards reconciliation, overcome the legacy of the past and move decisively towards its integration with the European Union.”

In turn, Czech Prime Minister Petr Viala, whose country alternately presides over the European Union, described the events in Srebrenica as “one of the biggest war crimes in Europe since the Second World War.”

It is noteworthy that Serb forces led by Ratko Mladic entered the city of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, after it was declared a safe area by the UN, and during the days of the genocide committed more than eight thousand Bosnians, whose age ranged from 7 to 70 years.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentenced Mladic and Colonel Ljubisa Biara to life imprisonment for the Srebrenica genocide.