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| | Ambassador Holbrooke: Statement in Commemoration of the Fifth Anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords, Dayton, Ohio, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | The three main leaders who signed the Dayton Peace Agreements are no longer in power-one has died, one has been overthrown in a peaceful revolution, and one, the man who joins us today, as he did three weeks ago in Sarajevo, Alija Izetbegovic, has taken honorable retirement from the Presidency of Bosnia. |
 | | Dayton can and should be improved - not by reopening it, but by bolstering it with agreements like last year's New York Declaration. |
 | | Dayton must be implemented in its most broadly based and ambitious interpretation, We must work together In fact, I believe we should consider a proposal I first made here five years ago, and hold annual review conferences to strengthen and adjust Dayton, to assess progress and establish a common way forward. |
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