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“Redemptive success” of UN’s court for former Yugoslavia

17 February 2016

A court which was set up to prosecute people for alleged war crimes during the Balkan wars of the 1990s has been described as a “redemptive success” for the United Nations.

Established by the UN Security Council, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, or ICTY, was tasked with trying a total of 161 people, mainly Serbs and Bosnian Serbs.

Foreign Minister of Bulgaria Nickolay Mladenov

Bulgaria presses at General Assembly for all Balkan countries to join EU

23 September 2011

The Balkans will only become a permanently stable region when all the countries that comprised the former Yugoslavia are accepted as members of the European Union, Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister told the General Assembly today.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) with the late Richard Holbrooke in 2007

UN officials pay tribute to late US diplomat Richard Holbrooke

14 December 2010

Senior United Nations officials today mourned the passing of veteran United States diplomat Richard Holbrooke, praising his skills as a top negotiator, peacemaker and champion of global causes.

Roma musicians performing outside the national gallery, Cifte Amam, in Skopje

UN refugee agency offers legal help to Roma

6 May 2008

The United Nations refugee agency is launching a programme in Belgrade today aimed at helping Roma in the Western Balkans to obtain the identity papers and personal documents which are vital to access social, health, education and employment services.

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With UN help, three Balkan states pledge to solve refugee problem by 2006

31 January 2005

Three Balkan countries agreed today to bring a genuine and successful close to the refugee chapter in southeastern Europe by the end of 2006, through either voluntary return or local integration in a process that the United Nations refugee agency will actively assist.

Balkan leaders vow to end bitter past through dialogue at UN-backed summit

13 December 2004

Six leaders of southeast Europe, scene of the worst religious and ethnic fighting in the continent since World War II, have pledged to close the bitter chapter of the past with a new culture of dialogue under a declaration adopted at a United Nations-sponsored conference in Tirana, Albania.

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