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Vučić says he will not attend Mladić funeral because Uzbekistan president is visiting

From N1 Serbia · () Serbian

Translated from Serbian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said he has official meetings with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Monday and Tuesday, preventing him from attending Ratko Mladić’s funeral.
  • Mladić, the former Bosnian Serb army commander convicted of genocide and other war crimes in The Hague, is due to be buried at Topčider Cemetery.
  • Vučić said he had spoken with Mladić’s family and had done everything possible to ensure the funeral was conducted with dignity and responsibility.

Aleksandar Vučić said a full-day official visit by Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will keep him away from Monday’s funeral for Ratko Mladić at Belgrade’s Topčider Cemetery.

The Serbian president said the visit had been scheduled four months earlier and would continue through Tuesday. He made the remarks while visiting Palić, in response to a question about whether he would attend the burial.

I have an official visit by the president of Uzbekistan all day on Monday and Tuesday, scheduled four months ago.

· Aleksandar VučićHis explanation for not attending Ratko Mladić’s funeral.

Mladić, a former commander of the Army of Republika Srpska, was convicted by a Hague tribunal of genocide and other war crimes. Vučić said he had spoken with Mladić’s family and that the family would decide how to organize the funeral.

He added that he had done everything necessary and possible to ensure the ceremony proceeded in a dignified, serious and responsible manner, and said that was all he could disclose.

Whether I did everything necessary and possible for this to proceed in a dignified, serious and responsible manner, and for the state to act in precisely that way, I did. That is all I can tell you.

· Aleksandar VučićHis comments about the state’s handling of the funeral.
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Originally published by N1 Serbia in Serbian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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