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“This is why I have been advocating several key projects to foster the development of State identity and social reconciliation. I strongly support the development of a Bosnia and Herzegovina national university consisting of multiple campuses with international accreditation. We must give the young people a path to the future and entry into the modern world so Croats will not go to Zagreb and young Serbs will not go to Belgrade. Otherwise, Bosnia and Herzegovina will lose its best and brightest hopes for the future. Restoration of a spirit of religious tolerance is essential for the long-term future and distinctive identity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“This will also enable us to constantly review resource levels with a view to progressively reallocating and reducing them as programme objectives are met. The work we have done in our train-the-trainers programme is one example ofthis strategic approach. This concludes my briefing on the achievements and plans of UNMIBH. Permit me briefly to comment on other matters affecting our work. So much of the international effort in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been about physical reconstruction. The Peace Implementation Council has now set its sights on repairing the institutional infrastructure and concentrating on economic and corruption-related issues. This is an essential and timely endeavour. But it is my conviction that we must also not neglect the importance of social reconstruction.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“We are preparing a medium-term plan for the fulfilment of our core mandated tasks by December 2002. Last month, I convened a weekend strategy-planning workshop of all senior field personnel to develop specific integrated objectives for the coming six months, and modalities to reach those objectives. Tangible benchmarks were established for each field office, together with performance indicators. The workshop was also instrumental in the development of a major IPTF reorganization designed to put more IPTF officers in co-located positions in sensitive areas in the field. Through these measures I am seeking to ensure that our organizational structure and culture is performance-oriented and results-based, and to extend this approach to the work of each of our personnel.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“This requires cautious consideration for two main reasons. The local history of the OSCE in this area of work has been characterized by arbitrary decisions to cut successful programmes, which have resulted in a significant loss of credibility with the local community; and its staffing and recruiting policy militates against recruiting personnel with the necessary skills and experience. The cost of a continuing programme - whoever runs it - is approximately $1.5 million. We believe that the Council of Europe could attract such support. The progress that UNMIBH has made has brought us to the point where, alone among the international agencies, we can begin to envisage an end stage for our particular slice of the international mandate in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“We favour the Council of Europe, or, to completely preserve continuity, expertise and resources, the United Nations Development Programme is another possibility. The Council of Europe is an ideal partner because it was influential in the gestation of JSAP and is familiar with its work. It is active in judicial reform, including the drafting of key legislation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the development of norms and standards for European judicial systems generally. A field presence of the Council of Europe would significantly add to its ability to contribute to law drafting and the judicial reform process. We understand that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is also a possible candidate as an organization to succeed the judicial system assessment programme.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“Regrettably, the excellent judicial system assessment programme will be brought to an end towards the end of this year, at a time when there is a need not only to continue judicial reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina but, indeed, to quicken the pace. It is imperative that there should be no gap when this programme is handed on to another organization. Those entrusted with this programme and with the new judicial review process must be competent professionals who have the confidence and trust of the local judicial community. The overall management of the judicial reform and review should remain the responsibility of the Office of the High Representative, which should be assisted by another expert international organization.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“Our aim is to create an effective educational infrastructure within one year so that the local police can become self-sustaining in their training programmes. Our focus on train-the-trainers programmes has already resulted in local police instructors teaching the basic cadet training courses at the two police academies. The next step is to extend this to specialized areas such as management, community policing, firearms and traffic. Let me now turn to UNMIBH's work in the area of judicial reform. As I have often said, if police reform is not accompanied by judicial reform, it is like trying to clap with only one hand.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“As oflast week, over 700 IPTF officers were providing day and night oversight in 256 of the 318 local police stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. But the key to self-sustaining police reform is professional training. The excellent performance of local police during the recent municipal elections demonstrates that our training is working. We have now completed our essential programme of human- dignity and transitional training for every local police officer to be aware of the basic requirements for democratic policing. Henceforth, IPTF will provide such training only to local police trainers, who will then assume the responsibility of training their own personnel under IPTF monitoring, thus freeing our resources for more extensive co-location.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“The International Police Task Force (IPTF) monitors evictions, compiles comprehensive data on return- related incidents and assists the local police to develop comprehensive security plans against ethnically motivated intimidation and crime. In a period of major spontaneous returns to difficult areas, such as Prijedor and Gorazde, our role is an essential complement to the excellent work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In all of these endeavours our focus is to ensure that police performance meets professional standards. This requires co-location of IPTF officers with local police for the purpose of monitoring and mentoring and the provision of training. In 1998, UNMIBH had 25 IPTF liaison officers in police stations.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“We are also working to ensure objectivity in the judicial system, which has been rendered dysfunctional through political intimidation and lack of enforcement of decisions. However, the court police project remains in its initial stages, hampered by a lack of resources and legislative authority. The establishment of court police is absolutely essential to complement the judicial reform process. Until citizens know that witnesses will be protected and court decisions will be enforced, even an effective police force and an independent judiciary will not be able to guarantee the rule of law. The role of UNMIBH with respect to refugees and displaced persons is to monitor police actions in establishing a safe environment for their return.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“Minimizing political influence by creating a professional civil service is a serious challenge for all international efforts throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Police Commissioner programme that has been introduced in the Brcko district and in the State Border Service has established the precedent of a single chain of command under a professional and independent police commissioner who is selected on merit, not ethnicity. This is a quantum leap away from the current administrative structure of every joint institution which is a "rotating ethnic triumvirate" of political appointees, a model ensures that there is no accountability, no responsibility and no continuity. Establishment of a police commissioner post, filled through open competition, is a major step forward for a professional civil service and administration.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“I am pleased to report excellent progress in data collection and initial screening for the Law Enforcement Personnel Registry that we established last November to register and conduct background checks on all police personnel throughout the country. Last week we reached over 10,500 registrations, out of a total force of some 20,000. The second phase of this project is beginning. All re-registered police will be tested, detailed background checks will be conducted and final certifications will be made. Concurrently, this process is assisting us to determine accurately the correct ethnic composition of the respective police forces and to identify displaced officers for possible return to their places of origin.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“By the end of this October, over 600 minority cadets will have been trained or be in training in the two police academies we established last year. This progress is encouraging, but clearly it is not sufficient. We need more to have a quicker and more substantial impact. The Ministerial Consultative Meeting on Police Matters (MCMP) that we established in March is starting to produce results. The basic conditions of employment for returning minority police officers have been settled. The first list of such officers is being processed. Moreover, the respective Ministers of the Interior have now requested that the MCMP agenda be expanded to include police cooperation in other areas, such as fighting illegal immigration.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“Also in January, the ethnically separate Federation anti-terrorist specialist police units were restructured and physically integrated. Within the coming weeks, restructuring and retraining of the equivalent units in the Republika Srpska will be completed, and they will be transferred from SFOR supervision to civilian control under UNMIBH monitoring. These tangible and important results that have been achieved over the past six months are only one part ofthe overall work of UNMIBH. One of the yardsticks by which UNMIBH's ultimate success will be measured is its contribution to changing the composition of the police forces to better reflect the multi-ethnic communities they serve and to provide confidence for minority returnees. We have placed the highest priority on the recruitment, deployment and transfer of minority police officers.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“As a further demonstration that even former combatants are willing and able to work together harmoniously and effectively, we are new training 16 military officers to serve as United Nations military observers, and we have begun preparations to create a multi-ethnic logistics and engineering company for future United Nations missions from all three sides. On 20 January, we inaugurated the multi-ethnic Brcko district police force. The ethnic composition of the force reflects the evolving demographics of the district - 45 per cent Serbs, 37 per cent Bosniacs, 16 per cent Croats and 2 per cent other - in a unified force, but the hiring of individual police officers was based strictly on professional competence.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“On 5 June, I inspected the successful physical integration of the Ministry of the Interior in the Herzegovina-Neretva canton and welcomed the appointment of 70 judges and prosecutors to new multi-ethnic judicial institutions. UNMIBH has led the way in enabling Croats and Bosniacs to work together on the west side of the divided city of Mostar for the first time since the beginning ofthe war. In April 2000, the first Bosnia and Herzegovina United Nations civilian police contingent was deployed to East Timor, where they are performing well.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“The Secretary-General's report, which is before you, details key achievements made by a mission that is dynamically on course. There has been tangible progress in all our core mandate areas of police restructuring, police reform and judicial reform. Last Tuesday, 6 June 2000, at Sarajevo airport, we inaugurated the multi-ethnic State Border Service of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is the first and only executive agency operating under the joint State institutions rather than the ethnically based entities. It is a major step towards building State identity, combating national and transnational crime and illegal immigration and preparing for entry into Europe.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“At a time of many calls on the attention and resources of the international community, it is necessary to plan the next steps in the Balkans on the basis of objective analysis. If you keep doing what you have been doing, you will keep getting what you have got. Let us recognize that the strategy of exclusion from Europe together with piecemeal military intervention has been a failure. We need to have as much vision now as our fathers did when they successfully planned the reconstruction of Western Europe after the Second World War. Bosnia and Herzegovina is not mission impossible, and it does not have to be a never-ending story, if we get our own policy settings right and pursue vigorously the target of European political inclusiveness. I turn now to the work of UNMIBH.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“Even though the people themselves are tired of political exploitation - as is evidenced by the strong popular support of the international community every time local officials are removed from office - during election campaigns the three main nationalist parties consistently feed off each other, denying political space to alternative parties and candidates. No local election has yet been fought on non-ethnic and non-ideological grounds. Too many elections can be as debilitating and demoralizing as too few. Despite this, we should not be pessimistic, far from it. The progress that has been made in the face of entrenched political obstruction has been substantial. But it has been expensive, arduous and slow.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“The dysfunctional triumvirate model of political organization in Bosnia and Herzegovina, exemplified by the failure of the three Presidents to uphold their commitments made before this Council in the New York Declaration, enables one or the other politician to ensure that the conditions set will never be met. Regrettably, five sets of internationally run elections in five years have not yet had the desired effect of empowering democratic leaders who place the interests of all the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina above their own.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“The solutions that have worked inside Western Europe to defuse ethnic separatism should be applied to the Balkans. We should not fear that this will open the floodgates to undesirable elements. The reality is that the undesirable Balkan elements are already in Europe. Keeping the ordinary citizens out of Europe only denies us their cooperation in fighting our common problems: political extremism; organized crime; trafficking in people, drugs and arms; and illegal immigration. Moreover, imposing strict conditionality on entry into Europe merely plays into the hands of those politicians who do not wish to be brought under the intrusive scrutiny of European legal and human rights institutions.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“It needs to be brought into a larger European space where it can be given the attention, encouragement and mentoring it requires to become a stable and self-sustaining member of the wider region. Everything we are trying to do depends on making a credible commitment, now, to Bosnia and Herzegovina's entry into Europe. From refugee return - why would any refugees in Europe want their children to grow up in a Balkan no-man's land? - to keeping youth in the country and not in visa queues; from seriously attacking cross-border crime to breaking the hold of extremist politicians and partitionist tendencies: it all depends on changing the optics of this country, and of its neighbours, away from parochial sectarian divisiveness by giving them regional identity and inclusiveness.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“Consequently, they were unable to participate in the democratic evolution of Western Europe. Their development was frozen in the political construct of group rights, not individual rights protected under the rule of law. And they were open to manipulation and chauvinism which, three times in the past century, necessitated massive international intervention and tempo-centric solutions that carried the seeds of even greater conflicts in the coming years. The international community has a historic opportunity to put an end to the cycle of regional instability and external intervention, but it requires bold solutions and major steps. Bosnia and Herzegovina must not continue to be confined to the fringes of Europe.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“The second claim I reject is that it will take decades of intensive and expensive intervention before the international community will finally conclude that the creation of a sovereign, democratic and multi- ethnic State of Bosnia and Herzegovina is somehow "mission impossible". I suggest that avoiding that outcome depends almost entirely on our own policies and actions. The people of Bosnia and Herzegovina are now living in a kind of Balkan no-man's land, unsure of their identity and of their place in the modern world. For centuries, the decisions which affected them were made in someone else's court: Istanbul, Vienna or Belgrade. Their region was the historical political and religious fault-line between Europe and the Orient. It was where the military borders were drawn.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“Those two missions, one regrettably forgotten by commentators and the other often overlooked, demonstrate that with the right mandate, resource support and organizational structure, the United Nations has the ability and experience to manage complex conflicts. I do not deny that the international community faces a steep learning curve in meeting all the new challenges of peacekeeping. But, as a general, an ambassador and an operational peacekeeper, I can honestly say that no organization I have been involved with is further along on that learning curve than the United Nations. It is my firm commitment to the Security Council that UNMIBH will add another successful mission to the much overlooked list of United Nations successes.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“From the beginning of the Yugoslav conflict, the ground-breaking United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (UNPREDEP) in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia ensured that war did not spill over into that fragile republic. And from 1996 to 1998 the United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (UNTAES), with the strong support of the Security Council, a robust force structure and a clear mandate under a single chain of command, successfully retained the multi-ethnic character of the region of Eastern Slavonia as it was transitioned back to Croatian control.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“(spoke in English) Before turning to the progress of UNMIBH, I must emphatically reject two allegations that have gained currency in public discourse and that have a bearing on our mission: first, the claims by some commentators that the United Nations is unable to perform the tasks of the "new international peacekeeping" in this period of inter-ethnic conflict and failed States; and secondly, that self-sustaining peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina will require decades, not years. It should be recalled that in the former Yugoslavia, which is in some senses a paradigm of the failed State and inter-ethnic conflict between populations emerging from non-democratic traditions, only two international peacekeeping missions have finished successfully.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source
“I am honoured to be here to brief the Security Council in my capacity as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Coordinator of United Nations Operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. At a time when the role and achievements ofthe United Nations in the settlement of inter-ethnic conflicts are the object of close scrutiny by the international community, I am pleased to report that the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) has resolutely embarked upon the proper path and that it is making most impressive progress.”
2000-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4154 (2000) · source