The Security Council today extended for another year the mandate of the European peacekeepers tasked with ensuring the continued compliance by all sides with the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement that ended fighting in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Political leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina are failing to produce what they should be 17 years after the signing of the peace agreement that ended fighting in the country and secessionist rhetoric is on the rise, the Security Council heard today.
Noting that heightened levels of domestic violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina are often linked to the country’s legacy of its 1990s war, a United Nations independent expert today called for its Government to “speed up” justice and reparations measures for women who are the victims of violence.
Bosnia and Herzegovina must do more to ensure ethnic and religious inclusion at all levels of society and prevent the damaging divisions that lead to conflict, an independent United Nations human rights expert said today.
Highlighting the progress that Bosnia and Herzegovina has made over the past two decades, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today affirmed the support of the United Nations in the country’s path to stability and prosperity.
The trial of Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military chief facing charges of genocide and other war crimes, got under way today in the United Nations tribunal set up in the wake of the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s.
