Situation of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)

Urges all States and parties to the Peace Agreement that have not done so to meet their obligations to cooperate fully with the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; condemns in the strongest terms the complicity by local governments in the perpetration of violence against minority refugees and internally displaced persons returning to their homes and in the destruction of their homes; calls upon the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina to increase their cooperation with the Commission on Human Rights and the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; welcomes the continuing efforts by the Republic of Croatia to train and to guarantee the professionalism and impartiality of the Croatian police and military forces and the actions related to the return of significant numbers of persons to their places of origin since 1995; condemns the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) for its gross violations of the human rights of the ethnic Albanians of Kosovo and its violent campaign to expel or deport ethnic Albanian Kosovars from their homes; strongly condemns the presence of indicted war criminals in the hierarchy of the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; demands that the Government hand over to the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia all government officials indicted as war criminals and bring to justice any persons, in particular those among its personnel, who have authorized or engaged in breaches of international humanitarian law and violations of human rights; further demands an immediate end to illegal and/or hidden detention by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), as well as by paramilitary groups in Kosovo; denounces the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) for its legal and physical intimidation of peaceful political opposition

Adopted 123-2-34, 83rd meeting

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Adopted at the 83rd plenary meeting, 17 Dec. 1999.