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Klein

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first: 2000-06-13
most recent: 2017-06-06
sittings or episodes: 22
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“The international community is on the right track, but it will require determination, perseverance and substantial resources to finish the job we began seven years ago and to leave Bosnia and Herzegovina as a viable State heading towards European integration. With respect to UNMIBH, the Secretary- General's report (S/2002/618) before the Council details the Mission's achievements since November 2001. To put those achievements in their proper context, permit me briefly to describe the police forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina when UNMIBH was first deployed. In 1996 there were approximately 44,000 police officers, organized as paramilitary forces along exclusively mono-ethnic lines. Most police officers were untrained. Police equipment was little more than military weaponry. Inter-ethnic crimes were condoned if not also aided and abetted.”
2002-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4555 (2002) · source
“But if UNMIBH's experience in police reform and restructuring is an indication of the magnitude of resources and the intensity of effort required to reform one part of the rule of law, the scale of the challenges that remain should not be underestimated. A functioning society governed by the rule of law cannot be established overnight. That is the crux of the paradox I mentioned earlier. UNMIBH has gone as far as it can in reforming the local police: we are ahead of the field. But systemic flaws in the rule of law as well as unresolved political challenges necessitate continued international engagement and support.”
2002-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4555 (2002) · source
“Recent examples are: the Herzegovacka Bank case, which appears to have been a scam by nationalist leaders to rob Croats of over $100 million; illegal arms sales to Kosovo extremists; the discovery of 7,000 mortar shells concealed in Mostar; and the detection of massive fraud in the Entity Customs Services and in certain ministries of finance. It is really not possible to accurately quantify the extent of corruption. But one telling figure is that the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina returned more than 6.3 billion deutsche mark to the German Bundesbank when the euro was introduced this year. The new High Representative has already set a fast pace in introducing essential legislation to combat organized crime and corruption.”
2002-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4555 (2002) · source
“Local police and corrections personnel have reached a baseline of professionalism and democratic policing. All other elements - courts, judges, prosecutors, legal codes, the rules for evidence and for criminal procedure and the witness protection programme - still require radical reform and restructuring. The result of the absence of the full range of rule of law components is that organized crime and political corruption threaten the viability of the State and the security of the region. Each week there are new revelations of high-level corruption and illegality.”
2002-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4555 (2002) · source
“For seven years, UNMIBH has been virtually alone in arguing that the rule of law is essential to the consolidation of peace and to the transition to a modern society. Initially, it was assumed that the rule of law could be achieved solely by reforming the police. The thin slice of the international mandate given to UNMIBH in 1996 was confined to non-executive police reform and restructuring. Between 1998 and 2000, the UNMIBH Judicial System Assessment Programme showed conclusively that the entire legal and judicial structure of Bosnia and Herzegovina was dysfunctional. But serious efforts at holistic reform of the rule of law sector were not undertaken until this year. Consequently, there is an imbalance among the components of the rule of law.”
2002-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4555 (2002) · source
“More than any other single act, the arrest of those two war criminals would change the entire complexion of national politics. Their arrest would close a tragic chapter of brutal extremism and would open the way for reconciliation and for the promotion of national and civic pride. Unless one identifies and punishes the guilty, one cannot ultimately absolve the innocent. In my personal view, the quickest path to achieving peace and reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina is to put an end to the culture of defiance and impunity by achieving the arrest of Karadzic and Mladic and their trial in The Hague Tribunal. A firm commitment to do so by all is long overdue. That leads directly to the challenge of establishing the rule of law. The new High Representative, Lord Paddy Ashdown, has made this his highest priority. I fully concur.”
2002-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4555 (2002) · source
“Citizens, particularly young people, must be encouraged to reject the failed ultra-nationalist parties and politicians of the past, and to vote instead for their European future. I am convinced that Bosnia and Herzegovina can work, but only if the citizens from all three constituent peoples decide to make it work. That brings me to the second fundamental impediment to self-sustaining peace. As long as indicted war criminals - particularly Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic - remain at large, political stabilization is not possible, reconciliation is not possible and the rule of law cannot be achieved. The goal must now be their arrest. They are an albatross around our necks, overshadowing everything we are trying to achieve. Their continued liberty emboldens the hard-liners on all sides to resist, and it intimidates the moderates.”
2002-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4555 (2002) · source
“Recent agreements and impositions by the former High Representative have produced a legal solution to the problem of ethnic inequality, but that does not yet constitute the essential buy-in to the concept of the State. Until the internal political settlement is achieved, the situation remains precarious, aggravated by the continued presence of three costly armies in one State. As long as those three armies View one another as the enemy, the Stabilization Force (SFOR) is trapped in its role as the stabilizing force without which other progress is impossible. While positive developments in Croatia and in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia have virtually removed the threat of external aggression, the regional consequences of internal implosion could still be devastating. The October elections are an opportunity for change.”
2002-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4555 (2002) · source
“As one former Republika Srpska leader said recently, "I believe in the Republika Srpska and in Europe - Bosnia was imposed on us." What he failed to understand was that the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina is not an alternative to Europe - it is a precondition. Much of the Herzegovinian Croat constituency has been making the same mistake. Instead of using the disproportionate political rights given by the Dayton Constitution, whereby one sixth of the population gained one third of the political power, the Herzegovinian Croats have followed the siren song of a criminal elite that has enriched itself while politically and economically impoverishing its followers.”
2002-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4555 (2002) · source
“Those impediments are the lack of political commitment by the citizens to the State, the continued presence of war criminals and the absence of the rule of law. The three are interlinked. Until those issues are resolved, the international community cannot reduce or end its engagement. The risks of doing so, domestically and regionally, would be grave, with a high likelihood that the international community would be forced to re-engage later, at an even greater cost. The political challenge is that the majority of two of the three constituent peoples still do not believe in the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
2002-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4555 (2002) · source
“Peace alone does not suffice in Bosnia and Herzegovina; serious problems are appearing - in particular with regard to criminality and corruption - which pose fundamental challenges to the viability and the maintenance of the country's situation. The vestiges of war remain; the country's situation is still fragile internally, and this in turn does not make for many encouraging signs externally in the event of a deterioration. (spoke in English) Permit me to explain the situation in greater detail. Bosnia and Herzegovina remains a work in progress. Like many other countries in transition, it faces major political, economic and social challenges. But, almost uniquely, three fundamental impediments to internal stability and to external security have yet to be resolved.”
2002-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4555 (2002) · source
“It is an honour for me to be before the members of the Council to report on progress achieved by the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) in the establishment of peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. UNMIBH continues to make important progress in the implementation of its mandate. To date, we have reached the stage at which the Secretary-General has recommended the closing of the Mission at the end of this year. I fully support that recommendation, even if it seems paradoxical in certain respects. The impression of a paradox lies in the fact that UNMIBH is at the point of successfully fulfilling its core mandate, even as Bosnia and Herzegovina continues to require the support and the attention of the international community.”
2002-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4555 (2002) · source
“Obstructionists remain, but there is an old Bosnian proverb that says "The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on." Finally, let me also thank and congratulate my colleague Wolfgang Petritsch for the work he has done in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I also thank the President and the members of the Council for their generous comments directed at my people. I will take those back to Sarajevo with me, and let them know that you think kindly of them.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot work as a European State without Croats and Serbs, but they have too often been misguided and misled by leaders who put their own financial interests above the interests of their people. We have an old Alsatian proverb that says "If you ride a dead horse, you're not going to get very far." It is time they got off the dead horse. We still have all too many leaders who led them into war and not into peace. They have addressed a past that they cannot change; there is a future they cannot yet see. Some people still vote too "ethnically"; they still do not vote economically or politically, as we wish they would. In closing, let me say that progress in Bosnia and Herzegovina may be slow. It is, at times, hesitant. But there is real progress.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“Mr. Klein: I will also be brief. Police professionalism is improving, but we need to pay the police a living wage. A food basket for a family of four in Bosnia and Herzegovina costs 450 convertible marks. Many policemen are paid less than that. We know, obviously, that in all of our countries, when you pay the police and civil servants a reasonable wage, you minimize corruption. Our major goal this year is the rationalization of police salaries. We will be working closely with the leadership of the Federation and the Republika Srpska to discuss, and address, that issue. With regard to Herzegovina, I think much depends on the constitutional decisions that will be made in the coming weeks. As I said three weeks ago in Mostar, the Croats needs to engage constructively with the State institutions to use the power they have.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“I very much hope for a future in which the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina will make wise choices and succeed in securing their due place in Europe.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“We are on the verge, key in hand, of closing an operation that has established new conceptual and technical parameters for the development of a culture of competence and integrity for police forces within a structure and organization that is based on the principles of transparency and professionalism. The termination of UNMIBH will also mark the end of a decade of United Nations involvement in peacekeeping in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In this connection, I am committed to completing the work of UNMIBH and of shutting it down with head held high. We must not forget, however, that, in the long run, our legacy will be in the hands of the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the leaders they will elect in the forthcoming elections.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“Of great importance to both these goals is the arrest of Karadzic and Mladic. In this respect, I fully support the recent robust actions of SFOR to find these two war criminals. I wish them better success at the earliest possible opportunity and full cooperation from the local authorities. (spoke in French) In conclusion, I wish to thank the members of the Council for their tireless support for UNMIBH and for having made their staff available to the Mission. It is their work that has made the Mission what it is today. The successful completion of our mandate ends the peacekeeping phase of one of the largest police reform and restructuring operations that has ever been undertaken.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“On the basis of our knowledge of UNMIBH and our experience elsewhere, we consider that there is sufficient time to fully plan and deploy the new European Union mission in a seamless transfer, providing that key pre-planning personnel begin work in March or April and that financial resources are made available to them to begin procurement of essential equipment and facilities. Our downsizing and mission liquidation planning is well advanced. We intend to retain around 1,600 IPTF monitors until immediately after the October elections and then to downsize to around 600 IPTF in preparation for the transition to the European Union mission. However, even with a seamless transfer, the presence of SFOR will remain essential until there is full political stabilization and substantial progress in reconciliation.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“With this in mind and in accordance with the Secretary-General's instructions, UNMIBH has been equally open and helpful to both the European Union and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe technical missions that have produced reports on the expected international policing requirements beyond 2002. We are gratified that both these missions shared our assessment that around 480 highly skilled police monitors, plus civilian support, would be required to preserve UNMIBH's achievements while also coping with the inevitable crises of a country that remains politically fragile, with substantial unreconciled groups.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“Nonetheless, bringing all of the elements of the rule of law together in one task force is a positive initiative. As we have learned yet again, the elements of the rule of law are inseparable and can be achieved only through a holistic approach. In our remaining months, we look forward to participating in a revitalized effort in this entire arena. But our biggest contribution to streamlining and local ownership will be to successfully complete our mandate and the smooth transition to a much smaller and more specialized mission.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“Towards this goal, we are working closely with experts of the United Nations Development Programme to establish a multi-year sustainable economic and social recovery plan for the wider area to facilitate two-way returns, recognizing the special circumstances and needs of families without men. A donors conference will take place in New York this spring. Srebrenica is one area that cannot be allowed to become, yet again, a victim, but this time a victim of compassion fatigue. Allow me to conclude with some brief observations about other matters that will affect our mandate implementation. We have actively participated in the streamlining exercise initiated and led by Ambassador Petritsch. A conclusion has been reached which the High Representative will now implement.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“While most of Bosnia and Herzegovina has progressed, Srebrenica remains a tragic symbol of underdevelopment and enduring hardship for displaced Serbs and Bosniac returnees alike. Eighteen months ago, the Secretary-General asked me whether the United Nations could play a special role in that desolate and tragic area. Step by step, through the multi-agency Srebrenica Action Plan, the United Nations Trust Fund and the opening of a model police station, we have reduced the level of insecurity. Returns have begun. But, in essence, we have attended to the symptoms of post-conflict paralysis without treating the underlying causes.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“There is a grave imbalance in the rule of law, whereby police standards have vastly improved but the judicial system, as Ambassador Petritsch has said, remains dysfunctional. Arresting criminals is useless if they are freed by timorous or corrupt judicial officials a few hours later and then intimidate witnesses or threaten families of police officers. Band-aid measures are not enough. As I stated last Thursday to the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council, immediate radical reform of the judiciary and prosecutors is key to everything the international community is trying to achieve in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Finally, I ask for the Council's support for Srebrenica.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“Most cantons and the Republika Srpska entity are on track, but we are facing determined obstruction in the Federation and in Canton Sarajevo from a political party that claims it wants to be a partner of the international community while it seeks to politicize and suborn the police forces. We are now in a situation where, if we do not act, we risk jeopardizing success in the other cantons. Therefore, I have sought and received my colleague Ambassador Petritsch's commitment to helping us take all necessary measures to ensure the full implementation of the Police Commissioner Project. Thirdly, I remain deeply concerned about the inability or unwillingness of the local judiciary to do its work.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“We are short by $3.5 million for capital and equipment costs to complete the State Border Service this year. About $1.5 million is required for the United Nations Trust Fund for Police Assistance to complete basic police equipment and facilities. And SIPA will require a mix of local and international funding for start-up costs. These shortfalls were the subject of two recent UNMIBH donor conferences. Secondly, the political support of the High Representative has been and remains vital for the completion of police restructuring. Our Police Commissioner Project is fundamental to removing political interference from police structures.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“Those are just some of the milestones that make me confident that UNMIBH will achieve its core goals this year and hand over a successful operation to the EU Police Mission. They are not just abstract achievements. The bottom-line proof that police reform is working is that over 92,000 refugees and displaced persons returned to their homes last year, with very few security-related incidents. Two weeks ago, several hundred Bosniacs celebrated their Bajram at the site of the destroyed Ferhadija mosque in Banja Luka and in other previously difficult areas in the eastern Republika Srpska without incident. But much remains to be done in the next 10 months, and some challenges go beyond the resources or authority of UNMIBH. First, there are some major projects that depend on additional funding.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“It is indeed disappointing that, despite our intensive efforts and the consistent, outstanding work being done by the IPTF officers, these unfounded rumours continue to circulate. Turning now to Bosnia and Herzegovina's evolving engagement in the international arena, the second rotation of Bosnia and Herzegovina police officers to East Timor has been completed. The first nine-person contingent of United Nations Military Observers (UNMOs) is serving in Ethiopia and Eritrea; a second cadre of UNMOs has completed training and is about to deploy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and in the past three months, the Bosnia and Herzegovina Composite Transport Unit for United Nations peace operations has been trained and fully equipped and is ready to deploy this spring.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“We are now focusing on prosecuting traffickers and brothel owners. With the assistance of our Criminal Justice Advisory Unit, over 50 criminal charges against traffickers have been brought. Sentences have ranged from 4 to 36 months imprisonment and substantial fines have been imposed. For the traffickers, the days of impunity are over. I would also like to emphasize that we have investigated every single claim of alleged involvement by International Police Task Force (IPTF) members in trafficking. Despite media sensationalism, not one allegation has been substantiated and no additional information has been forthcoming. UNMIBH pursues a rigorous zero-tolerance policy.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“We have also established the mechanisms for regional police cooperation through the regular ministerial-level meeting on police and the trilateral Regional Law Enforcement Agreement. Successful operations have been conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Yugoslavia against arms smugglers and traffickers of women. The success of these joint operations has encouraged Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovenia to seek to join the Agreement. We are continuing to aggressively combat human trafficking. In the past six months, under the STOP programme, special teams of international and local police have monitored 270 raids and interviewed 800 women and girls involved in prostitution. Since March 1999, some 410 trafficking victims have been assisted and repatriated to their home countries.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“The effective operation of the State Border Service, together with the introduction of a partial visa regime and an airport landing card, resulted in a 66 per cent decrease in illegal migration through Sarajevo airport in 2001 - down from 24,000 to 8,000. This year we have witnessed even further reductions and an estimated 20 per cent increase in customs revenues. Working with the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina, we expect the new State Information and Protection Agency (SIPA) to be established in the coming months. SIPA will be the first national organization responsible for the collection, analysis and distribution of data to other law enforcement agencies to improve the fight against international and inter-entity crime.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“Furthermore, we have now disbursed or committed all of the $16 million contributed by donors to the United Nations Trust Fund for the Police Assistance Programme for provision of basic equipment and facilities for the local police forces. In addition, the United Nations Trust Fund for the Restoration of Essential Public Services has supported 471 projects, costing over $17 million. This year we will complete the remaining 64 projects, at a cost of $4 million. On institution-building, the State Border Service has made extraordinary progress. By the end of April, some 88 per cent of the border, and all airports, will be under State Border Service control.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“Through the two police academies that we established, over 1,050 minority police officers, including 365 women, have been recruited. Some 192 minority police have returned to their pre-war locations through our voluntary redeployment programme, and 85 former officers have been re-employed following refresher courses. We expect at least another 300 minority cadets this year, and more can be processed once the European Union (EU)-financed rebuilding of the police academies is completed. Last month, I was delighted to oversee the official administrative and physical integration of the divided Mostar City Police. After six years of international effort, this is the first physically integrated administration at the cantonal and city level. It is a tangible precedent for all other cantonal and municipal institutions to follow.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“In January, UNMIBH and the SFOR multinational support units conducted the first joint training of 100 members of local police support units. In total, some 800 police, in company-size formations, will receive such training this year. In the core area of police restructuring, a comprehensive systems analysis of 21 police administrations began in January. The Brcko District Police Force that we established last year serves as our model for a democratic, multi-ethnic local police institution. Our goal is to accredit law enforcement agencies that meet this model. The expected completion of this project in September will coincide with the final certification of individual police officers. Minority police representation has steadily increased.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“Allow me to outline just some of the highlights. With respect to police reform, in January we completed the two-year project of registration of all the 16,919 law enforcement officers currently exercising police powers in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We have begun to weed out those suspected of war crimes or other crimes, and those violating the property laws. Last year, for example, some 2,000 police officers regularized their housing at our insistence, and a further 3,000 are now being vetted. All provisionally authorized police officers have undertaken compulsory training courses in human rights and many have received or are completing advanced professional training. In close cooperation with the Stabilization Force (SFOR), we have placed particular importance on improving local police capacity in crowd and riot control.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“(spoke in English) Today, I am pleased to report that UNMIBH is making strong progress towards completing its core mandate - on schedule and within its budget - by the end of this year. Our MIP Action Plan for 2002 was finalized last month and is designed to be our performance plan and monitoring tool for the completion of our remaining projects by December 2002. The Council will recall that our core task was to take 40,000 largely untrained police who were organized on a mono-ethnic war-time footing, and to turn them into professional, multi-ethnic police forces made up of less than half that number, each with human rights and professional training, working in accountable police structures and with a basic level of modern police equipment. Our progress since the Secretary-General's most recent report in November 2001 has been steady.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“Towards that end, he advised me to spell out clear-cut and specific mission goals, to prepare a plan and to implement it, as had been done with regard to the United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium. Three months later, on the basis of an objective analysis of the mission status, I came before the Council to announce that the task to be carried out by the mission would take two to three years. With the Council's support, we set up the UNMIBH Mandate Implementation Plan - better known by the abbreviation "MIP" - which represented a pattern of guidelines based on six major programmes designed to reform, restructure and democratize the police forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“Thirty-two months have passed since, at the request of the Secretary- General, I had the honour of accepting the leadership of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) a mission that the Secretary-General himself originally set up. While it is true that the United Nations was not invited to Dayton, the fact remains that, at the end of 1995, the United Nations was the only organization able to deploy on the ground a major multinational police mission within a complex post-war environment. The Secretary-General thus entrusted to me the responsibility of making a success of UNMIBH.”
2002-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4484 (2002) · source
“He continues to be an albatross around our necks. It is a poison cloud that hovers over much of what we do. In my own province of Alsace we have an old proverb which goes something like this: if you have to swallow a frog there is not a whole lot to be gained by staring at it. We have stared at this frog for five years now, and I think we ought to get on with it. I have in my Mission 95 nationalities. They are your citizens and your nationals. I assure you that they are doing excellent work and that you can be extremely proud of them. Sometimes the only thing I fear is that when historians write the history of this period 40 years from now, they will say that we in the international community and you, the members of the Council, cared more about the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina than their own leaders did.”
2001-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4379Resumption1 (2001) · source
“We have found that the Mandate Implementation Plan has given all our people a sense of dedication and focus, and I recommend a similar approach to other national organizations. In other words, rather than having amorphous, open-ended benchmarks, which are often not met, the questions to be asked should be, "What is your mandate; what are your plans to achieve it; and what resources do you need?" On the issue of war criminals, it is embarrassing and it concerns me as we deal with the issue of international terrorism. Mr. Karadzic has been free now for some five years. That basically demonstrates the impotence of the international community in the face of evil. His continued freedom emboldens hard-line Serbs to resist, it makes moderate Serbs cautious about engaging with us, and it undermines cooperation across the spectrum.”
2001-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4379Resumption1 (2001) · source
“Mr. Klein: To be very precise and specific on the issue of returns, returns are not inhibited by security issues. Overall positive security trends are there. The key problems with refugee returns are economic - that is, jobs - and cultural - that is, education, which the various ethnic communities demand. With regard to the United Kingdom's question on how quickly the State Border Service could be implemented, it could be implemented completely by next September, at the latest. I have a funding dilemma. I have 120 officers ready to deploy right now, but we do not have the funding for them. That is an issue I have no control over. There is a $12 million shortfall. If we get that, and I hope we will, it will be completed by next September. The question of plans and time lines has been raised several times, by several members.”
2001-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4379Resumption1 (2001) · source
“I urge the Council to remain engaged and to resist fatigue, be it political, donor or compassion fatigue. Give the world the leadership and the vision necessary to make the ideals of this great institution a global reality.”
2001-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4379 (2001) · source
“Bosnia and Herzegovina remains a test case for the ability of three ethnic and religious groups - Bosniacs, Serbs and Croats - to live in tolerance in one State under the rule of law. If the multi-ethnic society of Bosnia and Herzegovina fails this test, after six years of efforts and $6 billion of international investment, I fear there will be no hope for multi-ethnic States anywhere in the Balkans or in any other area of the world where there is historical, religious and cultural dissent. In such circumstances, further State fragmentation and violence are likely, and the international community will yet again have to deploy a massive long-term military presence to prevent non-viable mono-ethnic mini-States from going to war with each other, with their own minorities or with the international order at large.”
2001-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4379 (2001) · source
“Those who reject peaceful conflict resolution, and turn instead to indiscriminate terror against innocents, reject the very basis of civilization. The role of the United Nations in seeking to rid the world of the scourge of war is more important than ever. Only an international structure and consensus can successfully take on this global challenge. We say it so often that we sometimes overlook that the United Nations was formed specifically because nations were united in their commitment to the peaceful resolution of disputes and the rule of law. That commitment needs to be reinvigorated now. Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot be seen as some distant venture, isolated from global developments. The international community has real and abiding interests.”
2001-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4379 (2001) · source
“For example, the High Representative would be responsible for the core programme of institution-building, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) would manage refugee return, the OSCE would do democratization and human rights, SFOR would be responsible for security and the United Nations would manage the rule oflaw. I raise these possibilities for the Council's consideration and guidance. Even though the current UNMIBH mandate runs until June 2002, if UNMIBH is to be terminated in December 2002, urgent decisions are required to plan the downsizing and liquidation of the Mission and to enable the successor organizations to plan its future mission. (spoke in French) The terrorist attacks carried out in New York and Washington DC. last week were attacks on us all.”
2001-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4379 (2001) · source
“This would implement the lessons learned from United Nations experiences in Kosovo and East Timor, which demonstrated that there is a triangle in which the police, the judiciary and the penal system are inseparable. It would be consistent with the principle of one organization - one responsibility, which is a desired outcome of the streamlining process. And it would facilitate the introduction of a more efficient "pillar" structure for the organization of the international effort in Bosnia and Herzegovina. If option two is preferred, the United Nations has extensive expertise and capacity to take on such a mission. In this way, peace implementation would continue to be a collective endeavour between five principal organizations, but with clearer mandates and responsibilities.”
2001-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4379 (2001) · source
“With the Council's engagement, involvement and guidance, streamlining offers a unique and timely opportunity to make the optimum decision. Option one is a stand-alone police-monitoring mission. The role of the mission would be to ensure that local police planning and performance in the key areas of returnee security, public order and human rights are monitored intensively; internal and regional coordination and cooperation is maintained; minority recruitment continues; and police structures are not politically compromised. This suggests a mission of between 450 and 500 international police personnel, plus interpreters and administrative support staff. Option two is a comprehensive rule-of-law mission that would bring together under one roof the police, the judiciary and the penal system.”
2001-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4379 (2001) · source
“In sum, the police forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina will know how to do their work professionally, but their willingness and ability to do so will continue to be severely constrained by political interference in policing, inadequate and irregular salaries and the lack of effective and impartial judicial institutions. In these circumstances, a follow-on intrusive police-monitoring mission post-2002 will be essential to ensure that the achievements of UNMIBH are not lost and that the ongoing work of the international community is not compromised. Irrespective of which organization should take on the task, two options merit consideration: a stand-alone police-monitoring mission or a comprehensive rule-of- law mission, as originally envisaged in annex 11 of the Dayton Accords.”
2001-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4379 (2001) · source
“Subject to the necessary financial and political support, UNMIBH is on track to complete its technical mandate of police reform and restructuring by December of next year. At that time, there will be approximately 20,000 vetted local police plus the SBS, trained according to European standards and organized in accountable and transparent civilian police structures, with a basic level of police equipment. Local riot control units will be fully established. The institutions and mechanisms for internal and regional police cooperation and mechanisms for progressively increasing the multi-ethnic composition of police will be ongoing.”
2001-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4379 (2001) · source
“In the medium term, activities for each of the core tasks - rule of law, refugee return, institution building and economic development 4 should be functionally consolidated so that one organization will have primary responsibility over each core programme and be held accountable for carrying out its part of the Dayton Implementation Plan according to realistic but strict deadlines. SF OR should be included in this process. Without the implementation of some key tasks in the military sector, civilian implementation will be incomplete. Moreover, a continued robust SFOR presence is an absolutely essential component of civilian peace implementation. Turning now to the question of implementation of the core programme of the rule of law after 2002, I raise the following considerations.”
2001-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4379 (2001) · source