"BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA"

Those who commit atrocity crimes will ‘ultimately be brought to justice’, Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals head tells Security Council.

“There are sadly still too many people like Mladić,” the Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals Serge Brammertz told the Security Council following the announcement of conviction of Ratko Mladić, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb armed forces of genocide and persecution during Balkans wars 1992-1995. UNIFEED

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a statement on the delivery by the International Residual Mechanism for the Criminal Tribunals of the appeals judgment in the case against Ratko Mladić, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb armed forces, calling “on all those in position of power to refrain from denying the seriousness of the crimes that have been adjudicated.” UNIFEED / FILE

Electing Maldives Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid President of Seventy-Sixth Session, General Assembly selects Main Committee Bureaus, Economic and Social Council members.

Electing Maldives Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid President of Seventy-Sixth Session, General Assembly selects Main Committee Bureaus, Economic and Social Council members.

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Bosnia and Herzegovina remains in effect ‘a frozen conflict’ as political leaders push nationalistic agendas, High Representative tells Security Council.

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

In his last address to the Security Council as the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Valentin Inzko briefed members states on the political situation in the country, where “its political leaders continue to pursue wartime goals, generate divisive narratives and nationalistic political agendas and speak about a dissolution of the state.” UNIFEED

Ambassador Mr. Zhang Jun, Permanent Representative of China, and President of the Security Council for the month of May 2021, briefs the press on the Security Council’s program of work for the month of May.