DATE=6/13/2000
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=U-N/ BOSNIA (L-O)
NUMBER=2-263446
BYLINE=BARBARA SCHOETZAU
DATELINE=UNITED NATIONS
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: At the United Nations today (Tuesday), the top
U-N official for Bosnia Herzegovina, Jacques Klein,
said the international community has an historic
opportunity to end the instability that has
characterized the region. Correspondent Barbara
Schoetzau reports from the United Nations.
TEXT: Mr. Klein says Bosnia Herzegovina must not be
confined to the fringes of Europe. Instead, the U-N
envoy says, Bosnia needs to be given the attention and
mentoring required to become a stable and self-
sustaining member of the wider European region.
Currently, Mr. Klein says, the people of Bosnia
Herzegovina are living in a "no-man's land," unsure of
their identity and their place in the modern world.
//// KLEIN ACT ///
Everything we are trying to do depends on making
a credible commitment, now, to Bosnia and
Herzegovina's entry into Europe. From refugee
return (why would any refugee want their
children to grow up in a no-man's land?) through
to keeping youth in country and not in visa
queues, from seriously attacking cross-border
crime through to breaking the hold of extremist
politicians and partitionist tendencies; it all
depends on changing the optics (point of view)
of this country, and of its neighbors, away from
parochial sectarian divisiveness by giving them
regional identity and inclusiveness.
//// END ACT ///
Mr. Klein says that five sets of internationally-run
elections in five years have not overcome Bosnia's
ethnic and ideological divisions. He says solutions
that have worked inside of Western Europe to defuse
ethnic separatism should be applied to Bosnia
Herzegovina.
U-N envoy for Bosnia Jacques Klein says progress has
been made in the areas of police training and judicial
reform. But he urges the international community to
provide the resources needed for social
reconstruction, namely the development of a national
university and efforts to restore religious tolerance.
(Signed)
NEB/NYC/bjs/LSF/PT
13-Jun-2000 15:32 PM EDT (13-Jun-2000 1932 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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