Bosnia

Paddy Ashdown briefs Security Council

Bosnian Serbs change attitude towards war crimes tribunal, Security Council told

23 March 2005
The decision by the Serb entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina to hand over indictees to a United Nations war crimes tribunal seems to signify a change of attitude at last, 10 years after the massacre of up to 8,000 Muslims by Serbs in Srebrenica and the Dayton accords that ended the war there, the Security Council was told today.

UN agency signs first accord with European bank to settle Bosnia refugees

15 March 2005
Some 850 people who, 10 years after the Dayton peace accords, have still not found a permanent solution to their displacement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, will quickly receive individual accommodation under a landmark agreement between the United Nations refugee agency and a European development bank.