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.
