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  1. “Ten years after the Dayton Peace Agreement was signed, the institution of the High Representative, with the so-called Bonn powers - the authorization to impose laws and dismiss politicians - should be transformed. I believe that the best time for that is the end of next year. In that regard, I would like to assure the Council that the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina are more than ready to assume full power and responsibility for the future of the country.”

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  2. “Furthermore, a month ago, local elections took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina, for the first time independently organized and flnanced. International observers declared the elections to be fair and properly conducted. However, the fact remains that we continue to have a rather poor turnout for both local and general elections. Part of the reason might be that voters still fail to recognize that local politicians are the true bearers of authority, despite the fact that a great number of the reforms have been agreed among us. The institution of the High Representative has played very important role in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but I am convinced that the time has come to consider the review of its mandate.”

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  3. “While fully sharing the opinion that urgent measures are required in key development sectors, I wish also to assure the Council that the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina will make whatever efforts are necessary to that end. At the same time, I am convinced that we shall continue to receive the Council's invaluable support, as we have in the past. I would like to conclude by making one final remark. All the aforementioned reforms would not have been possible without the firm readiness of the institutions and the politicians of Bosnia and Herzegovina to take responsibility and to make necessary compromises. Not a single law has been imposed by the Office of the High Representative in the last year. Although some laws were highly sensitive politically, all were adopted through regular parliamentary procedures.”

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  4. “Together with the other countries of the region, we have set out a very active approach through the Adriatic Charter. Through that forum we have received the support of the countries of the region in order to achieve the final goal of full membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Even though we all agree that a huge job has been accomplished in Bosnia and Herzegovina to date, we must not slow down and admire our achievements. In order to complete our mission and achieve our common goal of full political stability and economic sustainability, we have to put in much more hard work and make many more joint efforts at the local and international levels. A detailed analysis of current conditions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as an overview of tasks that are still ahead of us, is contained in the High Representative's report.”

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  5. “Emphasis is placed on stronger and more open cooperation among the countries of South-East Europe, with the aim of changing the image of the region and attracting foreign investment. The economic progress and the prosperity of the region depend upon stability - which we were not blessed with in the past, but which we are now continuing to improve. That can be done only in the best spirit of good- neighbourly and good regional relations, and we will continue our efforts to that end. We are determined to keep improving our relations with our immediate neighbours, Serbia and Montenegro and the Republic of Croatia, as well as with all other countries of the region. Bosnia and Herzegovina remains determined to continuously fulfil all its obligations and to meet the criteria to be a part of Partnership for Peace programme.”

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  6. “The State Investigation and Protection Agency has already assumed its role in tackling State- level crime. The State Court is delivering its first verdicts against organized crime and corruption, thus making a great contribution to restoring the general population's trust in the legal system and the rule of law. A reformed customs service, together with the State Border Service, successfully fights smuggling, while at the same time increasing revenues. As far as regional cooperation is concerned, Bosnia and Herzegovina continues to play an active role in regional organizations such as the South-East European Cooperation Process, the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe and the Central European Initiative, as well as on the bilateral level.”

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  7. “Therefore, the results are little short of remarkable: all the capital laws required as a condition for a stabilization and association agreement are in place, and even a law that was not a condition but was deemed absolutely necessary by the Government - the law on value- added tax - is being considered in a parliamentary procedure even as I speak. Needless to say, those results have been achieved in close cooperation with the Office of the High Representative, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and other international experts. The law on internal debt, not without difficulties, was adopted by the Parliament in a version that meets the recommendations of the IMF. Reforms in other fields have been equally successful. The State Ministry of Defence is operational.”

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  8. “However, we are convinced that, without full coordination and collaboration on this issue with the international organizations that are present in Bosnia and Herzegovina - the ICTY, EUFOR, NATO, the European Union Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Office of the High Representative - the apprehension of indictees will be less certain. I should now like to make a few remarks on economic reform. Ever since the current Council of Ministers came into office, it has shown its readiness and its competence to tackle the field of economic reform as its number-one priority.”

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  9. “There is a firm political commitment to arrest the indicted war criminals as well as an awareness on the part of the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina that full cooperation with the ICTY is a precondition for the country's being recognized as a democratic State. As a result of the reforms, the State's capacity to deal with this problem has increased significantly. A State intelligence service has been established as well as a State Investigation and Protection Agency, with a special department dealing with the war-crimes issue. We are deeply convinced that all those measures will produce concrete results. Bosnia and Herzegovina particularly underlines the importance of close cooperation among neighbouring States in this particular matter.”

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  10. “If it were not for that one condition, we would have fulfilled all the conditions set forth in the Feasibility Study; we probably would have signed a stabilization and association agreement with the European Union and would be a member of the Partnership for Peace. However, the apprehension of the Hague Tribunal indictees is a delicate matter for both the local authorities and the international community, but it is no longer a political issue. As a result of continuous requests by the international community, the authorities of Republic Srpska have recently made several attempts to arrest some of the indictees. One of those attempts, in April this year, caused the most unwanted consequences: the death of an innocent civilian and the prosecution of two police officers.”

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  11. “The report not only contains the names of 7,800 persons who lost their lives in what were certainly the most tragic of all the events in the conflict and discloses several new locations of mass graves, but also accepts the share of responsibility placed upon Republika Srpska and expresses remorse to the families of the victims. Crimes were committed on all sides, as we all know, and we expect all sides that were involved in the conflict to follow this example, since there will be no true reconciliation or restoration of trust until all missing persons are accounted for. We are well aware of the fact that cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) remains one of the greatest obstacles to Bosnia and Herzegovina's association with Euro-Atlantic integration processes.”

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  12. “But, before I make a few remarks on our reform process, I would like to bring section XIII of the report all the way to the top and emphasize its content as the most significant development in the reporting period. Last Monday, the Human Rights Chamber of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina accepted the report of the Government of Republika Srpska on the events that took place in and around Srebrenica in July 1995. The special Commission on Srebrenica, established by the Government of Republika Srpska, thus completed its historical mission and laid the cornerstone for successful post-war reconciliation in my country.”

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  13. “At the same time, NATO will maintain a presence in the headquarters in Sarajevo, aimed at assisting the Bosnia and Herzegovina authorities in the field of defence reform, in the apprehension of persons indicted for war crimes and in the fight against organized crime and terrorism. The handover is a clear sign that a new phase is beginning in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina. We have transformed ourselves into a virtually normal European State in transition - from old-style socialism to a free-market economy, from a communist pre-war regime to a Western-type democracy, from a zone of war and conflict to a stabilizing factor in the region.”

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  14. “I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Lord Ashdown for his extremely eloquent and elaborate report encompassing the activities of the Office of the High Representative for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina for the past six months. Despite all the difficulties that we had in the past half year, I should like to begin on an optimistic note. Bosnia and Herzegovina has made significant progress towards the full implementation of the Dayton/Paris Peace Agreement. NATO announced at its recent summit in Istanbul that the Stabilization Force (SFOR) has successfully fulfilled its mandate. Upon the termination of the SFOR mandate, a new mission for a European Union-led force (EUFOR) will be established; this marks a new stage in the process of Euro-Atlantic integration.”

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  15. “Let me begin by expressing, on behalf of the Government and the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina, my deepest condolences to the Palestinian people on the painful loss of their leader, Mr. Yasser Arafat. It is truly a great honour for me to have the opportunity to address the Security Council for the first time in my mandate as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the occasion of the Council's consideration of the High Representative's report on the implementation of the Peace Agreement (S/2004/807, enclosure), which was submitted to the Secretary-General. At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month and to wish you every success in your endeavours.”

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