In March 2015 , speaking as the minister responsible for the intelligence agencies , he suggested that terror " apologists " must share blame in terrorist acts , saying " But a huge burden of responsibility also lies with those who act as apologists for them . " On 8 July 2015 , Hammond condemned the defeat by Russia at the UN Security Council of his four-page draft resolution S/2015/508 , which would have applied the genocide label to the Srebrenica massacre of Muslim Bosniaks in 1995 . Angola , China , Nigeria and Venezuela abstained , while the draft had been proposed by Jordan , Lithuania , Malaysia , New Zealand , the UK and the US . The Russian ambassador , Vitaly Churkin , criticised the British wording as " confrontational and politically-motivated " , arguing that it unfairly singled out Bosnian Serbs for committing war crimes in a conflict in which all three ethnic groups were the victims of atrocities . Hammond stated that : " We are disappointed that our resolution to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Srebrenica was vetoed today . " On 14 July 2015 , after several years of on-again-off-again negotiations , the P5 +1 reached agreement with Iran over the Nuclear program of Iran . Hammond was present in Vienna as the UK representative for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action disclosure ceremony . Hammond presented the deal in Commons the next day , and was in Jerusalem for a joint press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu , which was described as " tense "
Srebrenica massacre
Srebrenica massacre
Philip Hammond