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Vucic, hatred and anti-Serb politics rampant in region

(ANSA) - BELGRADO, JUL 12 - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic denounced the "anti-Serb politics" increasingly prevalent, in his view, in the region's neighboring countries. According to Vucic, the Serbs "don't hate anyone" and intend to have good relations with everyone, starting with Bosnia and Herzegovina's Muslim component. "We respect everyone, we don't hate anyone," he said in an interview last night with private TV station Informer. In Serbia, he noted, there are neither anti-Islamic nor anti-Jewish sentiments. Vucic pointed his finger in particular at Denis Becirovic, a Bosnian-Muslim member of Bosnia and Herzegovina's tripartite presidency, who yesterday in his speech at the memorial ceremony for the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide gave ample proof, according to Vucic, of his unmitigated "anti-Serb hatred." "He openly lies by saying that it was Serbia that attacked Srebrenica," Vucic said, adding that all the Bosnian Muslim politicians at the commemorations at the Potocari memorial center did not accuse Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina's Serb-majority entity) but Serbia. And this, according to him, because they are not okay with Serbia defending and being on the side of Republika Srpska. Yesterday Becirovic openly accused Belgrade of being responsible for the wars of the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia and for provoking the genocide in Srebrenica. According to Vucic, "anti-Belgrade hatred" also pertains widely to Zagreb, Pristina, Podgorica, Tirana, Sarajevo. The common denominator of those countries' policies, he said, is the anti-Serbian approach. (ANSA).