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Klein

lines on the record: 378
first: 2000-06-13
most recent: 2017-06-06
sittings or episodes: 22
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“What is most needed is what has been most lacking: a credible and practical vision to assist the region, shed its Balkan past, embrace its European future and move from the Yugo to the euro. We need to articulate what we want the region to look like in 2005, 2010 and 2015, and what we, the international community, intend to do to get there. The starting point is clear. Weak States devastated by war, near the bottom rung of development, with underdeveloped democracy and rule of law, lack a credible overarching construct for stabilization and development. The end point is also clear: stability and development require domestic accommodation, interregional cooperation and, ultimately, European integration. A credible path to move from one to the other must be planned and articulated.”
2001-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4330 (2001) · source
“It is my considered view that, with a steady hand, a credible strategic plan and dynamic leadership, the core issues addressed in Dayton - refugee return, full military stabilization and internal accommodation - could be resolved within the next two or three years. At that time, Europe and European institutions could take over the job of bringing the countries of the region up to European economic and social levels. But as long as the international community continues to pursue a piecemeal approach to the Balkans, in which loose coordination among a multitude of actors is an unsatisfactory substitute for purposeful planning, the real opportunities to close a tragic decade of war and instability will go begging.”
2001-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4330 (2001) · source
“If, after six years of massive engagement, the result is failure and withdrawal, United Nations authority, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance and the principle of multi-ethnic tolerance as a basis of democratic society are all compromised. Our collective credibility is at stake. If we abandon the field now to extremist partitionists and segregationists, the moral and political basis for future interventions against ethnic cleansing and expulsion of minority populations is weakened, perhaps fatally. For these reasons and more, we cannot afford to give up on Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nor is it necessary to do so.”
2001-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4330 (2001) · source
“Most importantly, the precedent of giving up on a multi-ethnic Bosnia and Herzegovina would be a disaster for its people, for the region and for the international community. Bosnia and Herzegovina is the test case. If international intervention fails there, we dash the hopes of a new generation that is just beginning to exercise democracy. More importantly, we sound the death knell for multi-ethnic States anywhere in the Balkans, with grave implications for peace and stability in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo and elsewhere. For the first time, war could spread beyond the borders of the former Yugoslavia.”
2001-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4330 (2001) · source
“It should be recalled that Dayton was possible only because the war was allowed to continue until the situation on the ground approximated the 51/49 territorial formula that would be accepted by all sides. All attempts to negotiate a different formula have failed through the opposition of one or the other party. Those who were unable to negotiate the consensual redrawing of boundaries during the war should not now try to revive failed schemes, especially when neighbouring States no longer support them and internal divisions have started to blur. The newfound respect in the last year for the territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina should be encouraged, not discarded.”
2001-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4330 (2001) · source
“The central Bosnia canton comprising an equal number of Bosniacs and Croats is integrated and functioning. Internal inter-ethnic trade and commerce have been re-established. Increasingly, ethnic partitionists are on the back foot. Robust actions by the international community to expose their corruption and criminal self-interest are taking effect. Two weeks ago, extremist leaders of the Croat self-rule movement failed in their attempt to extort unlawful taxes from Croats in central Bosnia, and Croat soldiers have started to return to their barracks. The political crisis is not yet over. But, for the ultra-nationalists, the writing is clearly on the wall. Moreover, a new territorial settlement cannot be reached by consensus, and attempts to impose one will only lead to resistance and renewed war.”
2001-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4330 (2001) · source
“These are the first brave steps by the people themselves to establish what really happened and what and who plunged one of the most developed socialist States into a vortex of barbarism and self-destruction. It is a psychological maxim that until the patient recognizes that he has a problem, a cure is unlikely to be found. Truth and reconciliation commissions are the first steps in the process of healing and of establishing individual responsibility. Until one identifies the guilty, one can ultimately not absolve the innocent. My third observation is that it is far more prudent and effective to work on the integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina than its disintegration. Progress continues to be made. The mono-ethnic wastelands are being reversed. Towns such as the ethnically cleansed Drvar are now mixed.”
2001-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4330 (2001) · source
“Last week a bilateral agreement was reached on using expertise and facilities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to assist in the establishment of a new State Border Service in Yugoslavia, and we are now working on a mechanism to enable refugee police officers to return to police jobs in Bosnia and Herzegovina while keeping their seniority and pension entitlements. I was also enormously heartened last month when the process of establishing truth and reconciliation commissions began in both Sarajevo and Belgrade. For the past decade, if not for the past 50 years, the politicization and distortion of history has been a weapon of manipulation in the hands of extremists.”
2001-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4330 (2001) · source
“In my recent meetings with Croatian, Bosnian and Yugoslav leaders, they have shown a real will to put substance into constructive bilateral and regional relations based on mutual respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of each State. This is based not on love but on realism. Cooperation between them is the fundamental building block for reaching closure on the Serb-Croat- Bosniac question in the Balkans and for creating the political and military stabilization that is essential for their economic growth and progress and their eventual integration into Europe. UNMIBH has seized this opportunity. In the past month, we have brokered a trilateral arrangement for cooperation in combating illegal migration and organized crime.”
2001-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4330 (2001) · source
“The decisive test of Dayton is whether the necessary conditions exist on the ground for people to return to their homes. It is now almost 10 years since the war began, and the number of people returning to their regions of origin has never been as high as it is today. It cannot be ruled out that this year as many as 100,000 minority returnees will return to their homes. The main obstacle is more economic than political. It is above all a question of lack of jobs and lack of donors for the rebuilding of housing. (spoke in English) Secondly, democratic Governments in Zagreb and Belgrade no longer actively conspire for the partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
2001-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4330 (2001) · source
“It is an honour for me to appear once again before this Council to give an update on developments that have taken place in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to describe the progress achieved by the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH). Recent acts of Violence in Mostar, Trebinje and Banja Luka have once again raised the question of whether the Dayton Accords are in the process of failing or whether it is possible to achieve the objective of reconciliation and the establishment of a multi- ethnic society in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in the Balkans in general. Allow me to make three observations. The first is to note that the current period is a complex and volatile one, but that developments in the field are a source of optimism rather than pessimism.”
2001-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4330 (2001) · source
“At the same time, I am reminded of an old proverb that my Alsatian grandmother taught me: if you start out without knowing where you are going, you are probably going to wind up somewhere else. So the Council's guidance is always essential. In his history of civilization, the great historian Arnold Toynbee wrote that every nation, every people - indeed, every institution - has an agenda, either conscious or unconscious. Those who do not have an agenda become the victim of other people's agendas. I hope that the Council will define the agenda. Let it be the collective voice of the Council, on behalf of the international community, that defines the agenda.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“Today, working together, we are respected, and we can, I think, use to great effect the unique moral and legal force of the United Nations Charter and the political neutrality of representing the nations of the world and the values they hold in common. Having now led two United Nations missions - the first was in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium - I must tell members that the Council defines the success or failure of missions. It does so by the mandate it gives us, the resources it provides and the leadership it ultimately appoints. As I said earlier, we have a Mission that includes 93 nationalities - they represent half of the nations of the United Nations. Some 46 nations are represented in the International Police Task Force. It can be done when the Council gives us the clear guidance that we need.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“Mr. Klein: I should like to thank members for their generous comments, which I will relay to my colleagues in the Mission. 1 can assure the Council that they will be very much appreciated. We heard a little this morning about the past record of the United Nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and that at times we have been weighed in the balance and found wanting; that is certainly true. When the Secretary-General appointed me, he gave me one very strong directive: to rebuild the reputation of the United Nations. I thoroughly support the observations made here today by some members about how much can be done when all the members of this Council work together on the ground. Five years ago, the reputation was somewhat in tatters.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“Day by day the 93 nationalities of which UNMIBH is composed represent a model of what can be accomplished when men and women of goodwill are prepared to work together for a common cause. I am particularly happy that China is planning to make available to UNMIBH police officers and a diplomat. This bears witness to the constant support that the members of the Council give to UNMIBH. Please rest assured that we will continue to work hard to deserve your confidence.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“The infrastructures in Srebrenica municipality have not been repaired since the war, and investment is required for job creation to support those who are returning and those who wish to stay. I believe we all have a solemn moral responsibility to assist the people of Srebrenica, and after five years the opportunity to make a difference is now before us. In cooperation with the international organizations on the ground in Srebrenica, we are preparing a comprehensive plan to address the many urgent needs. It is our hope that the relevant donors will allow us to use the United Nations Trust Fund resources for these purposes. (spoke in French) May I close this presentation by paying tribute to the men and women who are working in the service of UNMIBH. It is their work that makes our Mission successful.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“At present we have over 200 minority police ready to go home, but no funding to assist them. I am deeply concerned that this entire project may falter over this single issue. Finally, there is the legacy of Srebrenica. Five years on, after the infamous massacre of over 7,000 men and boys, the area of Srebrenica remains a tragic and desolate place. The decision on a permanent burial site for the victims has removed a major psychological impediment, but substantial assistance is required to create the semblance of normal life. Serb displaced persons currently living there need political and financial assistance to be able to go home, thus releasing housing for Bosniacs to return.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“I sincerely urge all potential donors, particularly the European States and institutions, for which an effective State Border Service is a cost-efficient preventive investment, to support the rapid deployment of this essential State institution. A second deep concern is the lack of funding for housing reconstruction for minority police. Here we are victims of our own success. This year we have broken through all the political obstacles to the deployment of minority police. Their presence in the areas of return is a vital confidence- and security- building measure to encourage others to return. If we agree that the ability of people to return to their homes is the litmus test of the Dayton Accords, then support for minority police housing must be at the top of our priorities.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“In November alone, 50 women and girls were freed from brothels and assisted in repatriation to their home countries. With the resources available to us until now, we have established a 400-person State Border Service deployed at three land crossings, one airport and a national headquarters, but we need the help of the Council and we need funding. However, as of today, we are unable to hire candidates for 900 positions which will result in a coverage of 60 per cent of the border. Under the best possible circumstances, which include the release and utilization of all previous donor pledges, the projected budget for 2001 will not even cover the salaries for these additional staff, let alone equipment and operating costs.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“The multi-ethnic State Border Service, which UNMIBH had been tasked to establish, is the first State-level rather than entity-level executive agency and an integral part of the international objectives of institution-building. More concretely, full deployment of the State Border Service is absolutely essential to combat organized crime, illegal migration, customs evasion and trafficking in human beings and illicit drugs. At Sarajevo airport alone, we have documented over 21,300 people this year who are suspected of having entered the country in order to illegally migrate to European States. The number of illegal migrants apprehended in Croatia has nearly doubled to 18,000 this year, and the number of victims of trafficking has also increased.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“Every effort will have been made to maximally achieve all areas of the core mandate and to have established self-sustaining mechanisms and institutions to achieve long-term and ongoing goals such as a full minority representation. All of this is dependent on UNMIBH having the resources to do the job. Allow me to briefly highlight the key areas where mandate implementation risks becoming stalled because of major resource shortfalls. Rapid establishment of control over State borders is the key to the consolidation of sovereignty, territorial integrity and international personality in Bosnia and S/PVAZAS Herzegovina, including with respect to its neighbours.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“Our vision for the state of local police forces in December 2002 takes into account the legacy of war, current political conditions, rational expectations ofthe population, local policing traditions and the aspirations of Bosnia and Herzegovina to join the European family of nations. The intention is to address the three levels of law enforcement in democratic societies, namely, the individual police officer, the institution of law enforcement and the relationship between law enforcement agencies and civil authority and society. Mandate implementation does not attempt to prejudge the decisions of the Council on the duration or the substance of the mandate of the UNMIBH. At six-month intervals, and particularly towards the end of 2002, the Mission will evaluate the completion of its goals.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“With this in mind, we have prepared, as an internal and evolving document, a plan for the completion of our core mandate. The Mandate Implementation Plan is a realistic attempt to identify specific objectives for the tasks given to us by this Council and to translate them into realistic programmes and projects that are achievable, provided that we have the necessary resources and a political environment conducive to that work. In fact, one of the driving forces behind the creation of the Plan was to give donors a comprehensive overview of the requirements of the Mission and, upon completion of the programmes, a clear measure of the results of their contributions. This is critical, given the expansion of peace operations and the necessity of prioritizing programmes that require donor support.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“The formerly separate Bosniac and Croat specialized police forces in the Federation have been integrated and trained for crowd control and major- incident management. The excellent judicial system assessment programme, which was terminated on 1 December 2000, completed 14 major reports on the systemic deficiencies ofthe legal and judicial system. The first Bosnia and Herzegovina multi-ethnic United Nations Civilian Police contingent of 12 is performing well in East Timor. A second contingent of 23 officers, including one woman, is now being deployed. And the first nine military officers will be ready next month for deployment as United Nations military observers to Eritrea and Ethiopia. The progress made by the Mission has enabled us to think about an end point.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“In response to the alarming statistics on the number of illegal migrants transiting Bosnia and Herzegovina on their way to other parts of Europe, we have initiated a joint task force on illegal immigration and organized crime through the Cooperative Law Enforcement Arrangement between entity Ministries of Interior. Substantial progress has been made in the integration of the Federation Ministry of Interior and the Ministries of Interior in mixed Croat/Bosniac cantons. Our target now is to establish unified budgets and complete physical co-location of ministries. The police commissioner project is making good progress. Its aim is to reduce political interference in police work and to institute a single chain of command in police forces.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“Over 550 cadets, most of them members of minorities, have entered or completed training at the two multi-ethnic police academies, in Sarajevo and Banja Luka. The agreement reached this year with both entities on voluntary redeployment of minority police officers to return to their pre-war places of employment has started to bear fruit. In another innovation, the first refresher courses for pre-war police have begun. The unified multi-ethnic Brcko police service has been inaugurated and functioned responsibly during pre-election riots. Following two years of obstructionism and delay, on 6 June UNMIBH inaugurated the State Border Service at Sarajevo airport. I will return to this point later.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“In phase 2, we will be able to weed out personnel who are suspected of war or other crimes. The Registry is also the basis for determining the ethnic composition of the police forces. Full freedom of movement is now taken for granted. The numbers of refugees and displaced persons have increased dramatically. In the first 10 months of this year, over 46,000 minority returns have been registered - twice the number of last year. The number of return-related incidents, although still unacceptably high, has decreased in most areas, as a result of UNMIBH training and guidance for the local police. S/PV.4245 Major steps have been taken towards changing the ethnic composition of the local police forces to give confidence to returnees.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“The Mission stands at a point where we can see the end in sight, but we do not have the financial resources to get there. Let me summarize quickly what we have done. We have achieved the transformation and reduction of police forces from 40,000 wartime personnel in 1996 to under 20,000 today. Over 95 per cent of these police personnel have undergone transitional and human-dignity training courses to ensure understanding of human rights. Specialized training has been conducted in drug control, organized crime and crowd control. The Law Enforcement Personnel Registry has been established to register and conduct background checks on all police personnel. Phase 1 of this project will be completed this month. It identifies every police officer, where they came from, their ethnic group and their experience and qualifications.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“As we take stock of what remains to be done at a time of shrinking resources and competing regional priorities, some rationalization and consolidation of the international presence in Bosnia and Herzegovina should not be ruled out. Diminishing resources must be used to greater effect. This means displaying far greater resolve and unity of effort. The dramatic changes in South-Eastern Europe have given us the opportunity and the necessity to re-evaluate our strategies and synchronize our operations on a national and regional basis. In this regard, the European States must play a key role. Turning now to the specific role and work of UNMIBH, the Secretary-General's report summarizes the achievements of a Mission that is fully engaged, dynamic and results-oriented. We have broken new ground not only in what we do, but also in how we do it.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“I am pleased to be able to say that over the next 18 months, the Law Enforcement Personnel Registry that UNMIBH has established will ensure that there are no war criminals in the local police forces. But until Karadzic' and Mladic' are brought to justice, there will remain a dark shadow over everything we are trying to do. Ultimately, we cannot absolve the innocent until we punish the guilty. Finally, the efforts of the international community have often languished through conflicting political messages, uncoordinated projects and failure to follow through, which have been used by obstructionists to their advantage. This is the price of having different bodies mandating different organizations under a loose coordinating authority.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“This is why I have voiced concern about achieving a seamless transition from UNMIBH's judicial system assessment programme to its successor body in the Office ofthe High Representative. It could also be argued that the international community has been overly conservative in how we have implemented the Dayton Accords. We have paid a very high price for our timidity in not arresting indicted war criminals in the early days of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization intervention. Their continued presence undermines the establishment of the rule of law, inhibits inter-ethnic reconciliation, prevents the victims and their families from reaching psychological closure and holds back the political future ofthe region.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“We have made our task more difficult by not having acted robustly against the criminality and corruption that have sustained the nationalist elites. For the past five years, the only engine of economic growth in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been international assistance, while nationalist parties have been able to plunder State assets. Resistance to the creation of a State Border Service and to economic reforms, such as privatization of public companies, is most accurately explained on criminal, not political grounds. I welcome the High Representative's focus now on economic reform and institution-building, but I am convinced that we would have made greater progress had we robustly tackled crime and corruption earlier, including through a more intrusive police and judicial mandate.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“Their relatively weak showing in the April municipal elections shocked them into mobilizing their old system of patronage and local media control to boost voter turnout in their favour. They spent enormous sums of money, very little of which was accounted for. The election results were not entirely negative. Major non-nationalist parties consolidated their positions and, in theory at least, could form a grand coalition that does not include the three main ethnic parties. The real disappointment is that after five years of intensive international engagement, a sizeable proportion of the population continues to support those who led them into war but who cannot lead them into Europe. S/PVAZAS There are some lessons to be learned from these elections.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“Rebuilding the physical and social infrastructure was never going to be cheap or easy. We committed ourselves to the task not only for humanitarian reasons but also because, politically, Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot be relegated to a mere footnote in the Balkans or in Europe. Three times in the past century it has necessitated massive international intervention. It remains the historical, religious and ethnic fault line that can again rupture regional stability. And it is the only State from the former Yugoslavia that is in any way multi-ethnic. Against this background, I was neither surprised nor am I unduly concerned that the nationalist parties preserved their positions in the recent elections.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“My third point is that even though progress has been frustratingly slow, much has been achieved to build the infrastructure of a State that can function in a European context. We should not underestimate the magnitude of the task we undertook and the commitment we promised five years ago. In the fall of 1995, Bosnia and Herzegovina was a wasteland of human tragedy and destruction. Half the pre-war population - some 2.2 million people - were refugees or internally displaced persons. During three and a half years of violent ethnic cleansing, more than 200,000 people died. The economic infrastructure, the housing stock and the religious and cultural objects of an ethnically and culturally diverse land had been purposefully destroyed. Not a family was left unscathed.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“European integration was the missing political construct, without which regional stability could not be achieved. In many senses, Europe has now taken up where Dayton could not go. The challenge here is to make the promise of Europe credible to the common people. They are sceptical, thinking that the international community may leave the work unfinished and that they will remain in a Balkan no man's land, marginalized from mainstream Western development and fought over and preyed upon by nationalist, extremist and criminal interests. This is why I have been advocating at least one concrete step, such as membership in the Council of Europe, as tangible proof that we are committed to their future.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“Nonetheless, I believe that after the forthcoming elections in Serbia, the time will be right to seek to put trilateral relations on a new footing by inviting the Presidents of Yugoslavia and Croatia to meet with their counterparts in Sarajevo. I would hope that members of this Council would support such an initiative. My second cause for optimism is that we now have a clear commitment by the members of the European Union (EU) to south-eastern European integration. The EU roadmap, as highlighted at the recent Zagreb summit, and the Stability Pact, despite its slow start, for the first time give the people of the region a credible destination in a European home. It should be recognized that the Dayton Accords addressed the internal and constitutional dimensions of statehood, but were not a regional context.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“In my recent meetings with each of them, President Mesic, Prime Minister Racan and President Kostunica have all confirmed their intention to take a new path based on respect for the sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina. For Croatia, this means ending direct financial assistance to covert parallel Croat structures and channelling support in a way that enhances state institutions. For Yugoslavia, it means quickly normalizing bilateral relations and exchanging ambassadors as a first step towards addressing outstanding bilateral issues. There will be challenging times ahead and difficult decisions to be made as we seek to drive the process forward without overloading nascent democratic forces that have not yet been able to consolidate their hold over the institutions of Government.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“Despite their signatures on the Dayton Accords, the regimes in Zagreb and Belgrade did everything they could to frustrate its intentions. As recently as April 1999, in a tape recorded conversation, President Tudjman instructed President Jelavic to pretend to cooperate with the international community and to never let on that the goal remained partition. President Milosevic encouraged Serbs to View the Republika Srpska as a separate State and used S/PV.4245 it to evade sanctions. Both States treated indicted war criminals as heroes and gave them refuge. Both gave military and financial support to separatist, partitionist forces.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“Those who had defended the holding of perpetual cycles of elections as a panacea to confronting the challenges of democratization are now reconsidering the relevance of turning to democratic procedures before democratic values are established. (spoke in English) Having spent five years implementing peace in the Balkans, I do not share the pessimism of some commentators, for three reasons. I believe that we have an historic opportunity to put a close to a tragic decade. We need to seize that opportunity and not be deterred by short-term developments. First, the democratic changes in Croatia and Yugoslavia are of fundamental significance. For a decade, nationalist regimes in Belgrade and Zagreb have torn Bosnia and Herzegovina apart.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“It is a pleasure for me to be here to introduce the report on the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH). Considering the principal responsibility of the Security Council for the maintenance of international peace and security, I should like, before turning to the specific activities of UNMIBH, to offer my comments on the important changes that have recently occurred in the Balkan region. Last month, the commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Dayton Accords coincided with the clear resurgence of nationalist parties in the sixth series of elections organized since the end of the war.”
2000-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4245 (2000) · source
“These are your citizens; they are men and women from your countries who every day demonstrate on the ground that peoples of different races, religions and ethnic groups can work together constructively in a common cause. Those are the universal values of the United Nations, which we all represent.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“We worked with the International Office of Migration to ensure that when the women do return to their countries of origin, counselling and reintegration will be available to them. We temporarily funded safe houses, and we are now in the process of funding permanent housing for them as safe houses. The report is available. It was written in conjunction with our colleagues in the human rights arena, and I think it very much addresses a strongly perceived need. I thank all members for their very generous comments; I will take them back with me. As I said earlier, of the 15 countries represented around this table, 13 are represented in my mission, along with 60 other nationalities. This means that the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the International Police Task Force include 73 different nationalities.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“Mr. Klein: Let me deal with the statement made in serial fashion. Regarding our time lines, I think we have laid out clear and specific goals, which we believe can be met. I assure the Council that I will do my utmost to bring this mission to closure on time and under budget in terms of the mandate. With regard to trafficking, I think the Council can take some pleasure in knowing that the United Nations was the first to identify this problem. Since Bosnia and Herzegovina has more than 430 border crossings mountain paths, dirt roads and two-lane highways we have a totally permeable State. We identified the problem, we began to raid the houses and we worked with local ambassadors to return the women to their homes.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“Citizens of 13 States members of the Council and 60 other nationalities are working for UNMIBH in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We are witnessing international cooperation for peace. I encourage members to come see for themselves what their compatriots are doing in support of international peace and the United Nations. In a region that remains unstable and tense, I actively urge members to abide by their commitment to a sovereign, multi-ethnic and democratic Bosnia and Herzegovina strongly anchored in its European context. The Security Council should not grow weary in any respect whatsoever, be it in compassion, politics or contributions. It should give us the tools and we will complete the job.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“But it is with the continued support of the Council, as well as through the dynamism and determination of the men and women working on the ground for the United Nations, that UNMIBH's basic mandate can be discharged in the next two and a half years. For the time being, I believe that we have to stay there so that we can leave later. Next month we will move into our new headquarters, United Nations House. That House will include most of the United Nations family in Sarajevo. Using the money that we saved by terminating our very expensive leases on the five different locales we had been renting, we have restored and are now using a dormitory that had been bombed, which will later be returned to Sarajevo University. I take this opportunity to invite members to the inauguration of the new United Nations building in Sarajevo.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“IfI were to identify three international priorities of an essentially political nature for bringing self-sustaining peace to Bosnia and Herzegovina, I would choose entry into European institutions; the strongest possible measures to encourage and support democracy in Serbia; and more intensive efforts to apprehend war criminals. Until one identifies and punishes the guilty, one can never absolve or free the innocent. (spoke in French) The events that occurred last year once again showed that tangible progress is possible, but that if it is to be achieved, intensive, coordinated and robust commitment is necessary at the international level. I am fully aware of the urgent needs for human and financial resources for peacekeeping in other parts of the world.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“The accuracy of this analysis was underlined in the release of recordings from 1999 of the late President Tudjman's instructions to senior Bosnian Croat officials, who were told to play along with the international community while continuing to work for partition. The change of Government in Croatia has already had a major, beneficial impact on our work in areas such as Mostar. The Milosevic' regime in Serbia remains the fundamental obstacle to improved regional peace and stability and a better life not only for the Serbs but for all people there.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“Real progress is being made, but there are severe challenges ahead, including accelerating the rate of minority returns, particularly to the Republika Srpska, and bringing the eastern part of the Republika Srpska into the national domain as a constructive constitutional partner. Also, we are mindful that we function in a broader environment in which responsibility for peace implementation is shared among a number of actors, and that much of what we do, individually and collectively, is strongly affected by developments in the wider region. I have consistently maintained that as long as there are not democratic regimes in Zagreb and Belgrade, everything we seek to do in Bosnia and Herzegovina is problematic.”
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“It is my hope that an international benefactor will come forward to endow a cornerstone inter-religious project involving the simultaneous reconstruction of four historic places of worship to symbolize the rejuvenation of the spirit of religious tolerance that dominated the history of this region for all but the past century. I have also supported efforts to reconstruct the Sarajevo-Pale road. The collapse last year of the main artery between the eastern Republika Srpska and the national capital sent a symbolic reminder of wartime separation. It must not be allowed to continue because of lack of funds. In the time available I have been able to highlight only some of the achievements of the past six months. UNMIBH's tasks are complex and labour-intensive.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source