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Silajdzic

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2010-05-24
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2010-05-24
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  1. “At that time, Foreign Minister Mock and the Austrian Ambassador to the United Nations extended their help to Bosnia and Herzegovina and to our efforts to defend our country. For that I am grateful. And of course I am grateful also to all those who helped us during those difficult moments for our people and our State.”

    2010-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6319 (2010) · source

  2. “The Russian Government participated in the Dayton Agreement procedures, and they are a part of the process. The Russian Government agreed to and signed the Dayton Peace Agreement as a guarantor. I regret that the Russian Government continues uncritically to support only one ethnic group in Bosnia and Herzegovina. That is not a very good contribution to peace and stability and to maintaining the Dayton Agreement as the basic law for Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Agreement ended genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina and brought peace to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it must be maintained. Let me end on a personal note here, because High Representative Inzko reminded me of our beginnings. When Bosnia and Herzegovina was attacked, it is true that I, as the Foreign Minister, did not have a telephone here - not even a chair to sit on.”

    2010-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6319 (2010) · source

  3. “So, we believe that maintaining the Dayton Agreement, as it is, is vital to peace and stability in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Of course, the Dayton Agreement came at a great price for citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially Bosniaks and Croats. Tens of thousands were killed and hundreds of thousands remain to this day in the diaspora, ethnically cleansed. So that is why we will not allow anyone to question that to which all of us agreed in Dayton. It may appear to some that Bosnia and Herzegovina managed to prevail in Dayton by remaining a unified country. But I assure the Council that What I have described is a fact of life. And I am very sorry and regretful to have heard here that the representative of the Russian Federation viewed my speech as not constructive.”

    2010-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6319 (2010) · source

  4. “Mr. Silajdzic': Let me thank the representatives of the countries now members of the Security Council for their valuable contributions, comments and views, which my country will certainly take into consideration, especially since, as I have said, I came here today because I believe that the basic law of Bosnia and Herzegovina - the Dayton Peace Agreement and especially its pillars such as the Constitution and its article I - is being questioned right now, in particular on the issue of State property. This is not about the property, per se, in Bosnia and Herzegovina; it is about the character of the State and the character of our Agreement. The Agreement, signed by all the countries present at Dayton, is that Bosnia and Herzegovina continues as a State under international law.”

    2010-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6319 (2010) · source