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persons responsible for such violations and condemned in particular the
unacceptable practice of ethnic cleansing perpetrated in areas of the Republic
of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the control of Bosnian Serb forces,
Recalling also additional Security Council resolutions, in particular
resolutions 824 (1993) of 6 May 1993 and 836 (1993) of 4 June 1993, in which
the Council declared that Sarajevo, Tuzla, Žepa, Goražde, Bihac
´, Srebrenica
and their surroundings should be treated as safe areas, that international
humanitarian agencies should be given free and unimpeded access to those areas
and that there should be freedom of movement for the civilian population and
humanitarian goods to, from and within the areas,
Recalling further Security Council resolution 1019 (1995) of 9 November
1995, in which the Council demanded that the Bosnian Serb party give immediate
and unimpeded access to representatives of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, the International Committee of the Red Cross and
other international agencies to persons displaced and to persons detained or
reported missing from Srebrenica, Žepa and the regions of Banja Luka and
Sanski Most,
Gravely concerned at attacks and capture by the Bosnian Serbs and
Croatian Serb forces of safe areas, in violation of the relevant Security
Council resolutions,
Recalling Security Council resolution 1009 (1995) of 10 August 1995, in
which the Council demanded that the Government of the Republic of Croatia
respect fully the rights of the local Serb population, including their rights
to remain, leave or return in safety, allow access to this population by
international humanitarian organizations and create conditions conducive to
the return of those persons who have left their homes,
Noting with appreciation the efforts of the United Nations Peace Forces
to help to create the conditions for the peaceful settlement of the conflicts
in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia and to
provide protection for the delivery of humanitarian aid and the protection of
human rights, and also noting the obstacles faced by those forces in the
performance of their mandates,
Acknowledging the progress made by the Bosnian Federation as a model for
ethnic reconciliation in the region,
Encouraging the international community, acting through the United
Nations and other international organizations as well as bilaterally, to
enhance significantly humanitarian support for the people of the region and to
promote human rights, economic reconstruction, the repatriation of refugees
and the holding of free elections in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Welcoming the efforts of the European Union to promote respect for human
rights and fundamental freedoms, and endorsing the recommendation of the
Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human
rights in the territory of the former Yugoslavia that economic and other aid
must be made conditional upon meaningful progress in human rights,
Gravely concerned at the human rights violations in the Republic of
Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia and the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), in particular at those committed in the
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