Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz (PPE), in writing. – Today, here at the European Parliament, we honour the memory of the over 8 000 innocent men and boys – brothers and husbands, fathers and sons – who were brutally murdered in Srebrenica in a brazen act of genocide that shocked the world.

The name Srebrenica will forever be associated with some of the darkest acts of the 20th century. We know that Srebrenica’s future, and that of Bosnia and Herzegovina, will not be held back by its painful recent history. We reject efforts to distort the scope of this atrocity, rationalise the motivations behind it, blame the victims, and deny the indisputable fact that it was genocide. We all desire continued reconciliation and peaceful coexistence for the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Balkans, because achieving that will be the ultimate repudiation of the evil that started the wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina and elsewhere in the region and that led to the Srebrenica genocide. Our hearts and deepest sympathies are with them, and we pledge our enduring commitment to support their aspirations for a better tomorrow.