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EU Parliament resolution on Srebrenica - 10 Years on

Summary: July 7, 2005: European Parliament - The Balkans: 10 years after Srebrenica (Strasbourg)

The European Parliament today passed a joint resolution on Srebrenica, ten years after the massacre where more than 7,000 unarmed Bosnian Muslim men are thought to have been killed by Bosnian Serb forces in the UN-proclaimed safe haven.

MEPs strongly condemn the massacre and want the Council and Commission to ensure sure that the tenth anniversary of the act of genocide is adequately remembered. The resolution calls for urgent action on the part of the Republika Srpska and Serbia-Montenegro to locate Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic so that they can be brought to justice and denied the popular support MEPs consider to be an obstacle to reconciliation. MEPs remain seriously concerned at the lack of recognition of the crimes, despite the recent airing of Srebrenica video footage which led to a number of arrests. In order to secure justice, they want closer ties with the EU, including continuation of the process of integration with the EU, to be conditional upon full cooperation with the ICTY. The EU and Member States should also give full practical support to the search for truth and the path towards reconciliation.

The House calls for modification of the Dayton agreement for the purposes of the EU integration process. MEPs consider improved economic and social conditions to be the key to stable development in the region and call for the EU to accord top priority to this area. MEPs stress that the lessons learned from Srebrenica and the wars in the former Yugoslavia should serve as the basis for a strengthened EU Common Foreign and Security Policy: They further urge the UN and the relevant international institutions to put into practice the lessons learned from this failure and to be truly prepared for future peacekeeping missions.

MEPs continue to support the applicant and potential applicant countries of the Balkans in their preparation for membership, and call for adequate instruments and funding in this regard during the next financial perspective.

  • Ref: EP05-059EN
  • EU source: European Parliament
  • UN forum: 
  • Date: 7/7/2005


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