UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon apologized on Thursday for the performance of a Serbian military song in the world body's General Assembly, which activists said was associated with massacres in Bosnia in the 1990s.
But U.N. General Assembly President Vuk Jeremic, a Serbian, defended the performance of Mars na Drinu (March on the River Drina) at a New Year's concert organized by his office at U.N. headquarters in New York on Monday.
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