Situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Author(s):
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Origin
- Assembly debate on 13 May 1993 (36th Sitting) (see Doc. 6835, report of the Political Affairs Committee, Rapporteur: Mr Reddemann). Text adopted by the Assembly on 13 May 1993 (36th Sitting).
- Thesaurus
1. The Assembly considers that the Vance-Owen peace plan, despite the considerable risks it entails,
both for the immediate and the distant future, at present constitutes the only realistic possibility of
bringing about a cease-fire and the start of a peace process in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
2. It recalls that this plan had already been accepted by the Government of Bosnia-Herzegovina and
by representatives of the Bosnian Croat population and received the support of all parties to the
conflict during the recent Athens summit (1-2 May 1993).
3. Therefore, the Assembly is dismayed at the refusal of the self-appointed Bosnian Serb "parliament"
to accept this peace plan.
4. It considers that the leadership of the Bosnian Serbs has, once again, demonstrated its total lack of
interest in a peaceful solution to the conflict and continues to mock the international community.
5. The Assembly welcomes and endorses United Nations Security Council
Resolution 824, in particular the establishment of safe areas.
6. The Assembly calls upon the governments of the Council of Europe member states, especially
those represented on the United Nations Security Council, to urge the Security Council:
6.1 to ensure full application of the existing embargo against Serbia and Montenegro;
6.2 to propose the creation of an international criminal court to judge war crimes as already advocated by the Assembly in
Recommendation 1189 (1992);
6.3 to enlarge the mandate of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR), and to put sufficient means at its disposal, not only to ensure compliance with all relevant Security Council resolutions, and, in particular, effectively to protect the safe areas set up under Security Council
Resolution 824 (1993), but also to impose and maintain the cease-fire.
7. The Assembly considers that there should be a fair sharing of the costs imposed by the conflict in
the former Yugoslavia and calls upon the governments of the member states of the Council of Europe and of states whose parliaments enjoy special guest status, to increase their financial contributions to
the humanitarian relief operations and to the implementation of all relevant United Nations
resolutions.
