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| Russia vetoes UN resolution calling Srebrenica 'genocide' | |
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| Russia has vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have described the Srebrenica massacre as "genocide". | |
| Four other members of the council abstained while the remainder voted in favour. | Four other members of the council abstained while the remainder voted in favour. |
| The killing of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in 1995 by Bosnian Serb troops was the worst massacre in Europe since World War Two. | |
| The motion had angered Serbia, which rejects the term. | The motion had angered Serbia, which rejects the term. |
| It had been drafted to mark the 20th anniversary of the atrocity, which came amid the bloody break-up of Yugoslavia into independent states. | |
| The resolution said that "acceptance of the tragic events at Srebrenica as genocide is a prerequisite for reconciliation". | |
| But Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin called it "not constructive, confrontational and politically motivated," Reuters reported. | |
| The vote had been put back a day to allow the US and the UK - which drafted the resolution - to try to persuade Russia not to veto it. |