Serbia and Russia disinform about Kosovo, the US and the West

All major world developments, including those in Kosovo, over the past week have been used by Serbia and Russia to spread misinformation in their favor. They did not go without exploiting the assassination of the Slovakian Prime Minister, the death of the Iranian President and the Srebrenica resolution.

This was the case with the closure of the so-called Postal Savings Bank (Banka Postanska Stedionica) as an illegal financial institution of Serbia in the Republic of Kosovo, for which disinformation was spread in Belgrade that the Serbs were under threat.

And while Belgrade spread false information, the authorities in Kosovo declared that this was done with the aim of establishing legality, after informing and inquiring the competent institutions and authorizing the prosecutor.

The Postal Savings Bank of Serbia, which was closed on Monday, has been operating in Kosovo in complete violation of the applicable laws. Since it is not licensed by the Central Bank of Kosovo, it did not report on financial transactions, nor was it supervised by the competent authorities. Such operation of the so-called bank is the only case in Europe and beyond. Of the five facilities it has used, this “bank” has used three of them because they are owned by the Privatization Agency of Kosovo. All these facts refute Serbia’s misinformation that Serbs are allegedly under threat.

Last week there was misinformation about the US, the West and the Srebrenica resolution.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and former Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif misinformed that US sanctions against Iran influenced the shooting down of the helicopter that killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.

US officials quickly dismissed the allegations as “baseless”, while Iran asked the US for help after the accident.

The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) spread disinformation that the totalitarian-liberal globalist elites of the West were behind the assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, describing it as “the beginning of political terror against their opponents”. Such a claim is easy to deny when one knows that Western officials have repeatedly emphasized their commitment to democratic processes and the rule of law.

Serbian and Russian disinformation also spread about the proposed resolution on Srebrenica.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Russian UN Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya sued the United Nations General Assembly for alleged Western pressure and procedural irregularities in connection with the proposed resolution on Srebrenica. Vucic accused the West and the United Nations of “threatening UN member states”, while Nebenzya criticized the way the resolution was proposed and adopted.

Vučić’s and Nebenzya’s claims about Western pressure and procedural irregularities in the Srebrenica resolution are disinformation aimed at discrediting international efforts to recognize and condemn the genocide.

Meanwhile, despite the fact that the United Nations adopted the resolution on genocide in Srebrenica, the President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, has misinformed and stated that the United Nations did not support it and that it did not reach a majority.

This is another attempt by Dodik to continue denying the genocide and not taking responsibility for the genocide in Srebrenica.

On May 23, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution declaring July 11 as the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Srebrenica Genocide. The resolution was adopted with 84 votes in favor. There were 19 votes against and 68 abstentions.

The resolution was introduced jointly by Germany and Rwanda.

On July 11, 1995, Serbian forces and Bosnian Serbs occupied a UN-protected security zone in Srebrenica. They separated at least 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys from their wives, mothers and sisters and massacred them. Those who tried to flee were chased through the forests and over the mountains surrounding the town./The Geopost/