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their respective countries, to ensure freedom of expression and of the media, to allow and encourage
freedom of association, including with respect to political parties, and to ensure freedom of movement,
and that the parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina comply with the human rights provisions of their national
Constitution;
11. Calls upon all parties and States in the region to ensure that the promotion of human rights,
including the fulfilment of their respective human rights obligations by the parties to the Peace Agreement,
as well as the strengthening of national institutions, will be a central element in the new civilian structure
implementing the Peace Agreement, as promised at the Peace Implementation Conference held in London
on 4 and 5 December 1996 13 and at the Ministerial Meeting of the Steering Board of the Peace
Implementation Council and the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina held at Sintra, Portugal, on
30 May 1997;14
12. Calls upon the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to undertake substantially
greater efforts to institute democratic norms, especially in regard to the promotion and protection of free
and independent media, and full respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms;
13. Also calls upon the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to ensure the speedy and
consistent investigation of acts of discrimination and violence against refugees and to ensure the arrest
and punishment of those responsible for those acts;
14. Further calls upon the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to allow for the return
of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia nationals and refugees currently outside its territory;
15. Urgently demands that the authorities of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia take immediate
action to put an end to the repression of, and prevent violence against, non-Serb populations in Kosovo,
including acts of harassment, beatings, torture, warrantless searches, arbitrary detention and unfair trials,
and also to respect the rights of persons belonging to minority groups in the Sandjak and Vojvodina and
of persons belonging to the Bulgarian minority and to allow the immediate, unconditional return of the
long-term mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to Kosovo, the Sandjak
and Vojvodina, as called for in Security Council resolution 855 (1993) of 9 August 1993;
16. Calls upon the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to respect the democratic
process and to act immediately to allow freedom of expression and assembly and full and free
participation by all residents in Kosovo in the political, economic, social and cultural life of the region,
particularly in the areas of education and health care, and to ensure that all the residents of the region are
guaranteed equal treatment and protection regardless of ethnic affiliation;
17. Strongly urges the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to revoke all
discriminatory legislation and to apply all other legislation without discrimination and to take urgent action
to prevent arbitrary evictions and dismissals and discrimination against any ethnic or national, religious
or linguistic group;
13
Ibid., Fifty-first Year, Supplement for October, November and December 1996, document
S/1996/1012, annex.
14
Ibid., Fifty-second Year, Supplement for April, May and June 1997, document S/1997/434, annex.
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