Speeches

Statement - Paris, 14/11/96 Ministerial Meeting of the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council Statement by the High Representative, Mr. Carl Bildt Paris, November 14, 1996 One year ago there was a fragile cease-fire in Bosnia as the peace talks at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio were about to enter their third week with [...]

Less than a year ago, the most ambitious peace agreement in modern history was concluded at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. After 45 months of the most bitter and brutal war on the continent of Europe since 1945 the guns fell silent, and the work on creating a durable peace could begin. The road to the Peace Agreement had been [...]

Today is an important day in the history of your country - Bosnia and Herzegovina. Today is the first day in the rest of your history.

at the Inaugural Session of the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo, 5 October 1995 Mr. Presidents, Esteemed Parliamentarians, Dear Guests, Today is an important day in the history of your country - Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Report to the Florence Mid-Year Review Conference Florence, 13 June 1996 One year ago, the war in Bosnia was escalating, and peace seemed to be further away than ever before. The last of the UN hostages taken by the Bosnian Serbs had just been released.

Second European Union/World Bank Donors Conference for Bosnia and Herzegovina Brussels, 13 April 1996 When we met here in Brussels for the first meeting on the reconstruction of Bosnia and Herzegovina, only six days had passed since the Peace Agreement was signed in Paris. At that meeting, I stressed five points that - in my opinion - were of cruci [...]

Nippon Press Centre Tokyo, April 8, 1996 It am particularly pleased to be in Tokyo today to talk about Bosnia. Bosnia matters to us all as a human tragedy. Wherever we come from, we have suffered with the people of Bosnia over the past four years.

BY CARL BILDT, HIGH REPRESENTATIVE to the Contact Group Ministerial Moscow, 23 March 1996. We have now concluded the first phase of the implementation of the Peace Agreement. Dominated by the military implementation issues and the establishment of the new Inter-Entity Border Line (IEBL), it has been an over-all success, and has provided a good basi [...]

BY CARL BILDT, HIGH REPRESENTATIVE at the International Round Table on Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina Vienna, 4 March 1996 In recent weeks, many Serbian families -- some of them life-long residents of Sarajevo -- have decided to leave the areas surrounding the city.

Tonight, I want to emphasize that all people can stay in Sarajevo. I know that four years of war have created a great deal of distrust and fear that cannot be removed in the sixty days since the peace agreement was signed. But this is no reason for Sarajevans to leave their city.