| | SECURITY COUNCIL WELCOMES EUROPEAN UNION OFFER TO PROVIDE POLICE MISSION IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA FROM 1 JANUARY 2003 |
 | | INOCENCIO ARIAS (Spain), speaking on behalf of the European Union, said the importance the European Union ascribed to the issue being discussed today was underscored by the presence of the Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union and the High Representative for Foreign Policy and Common Security, Javier Solana. He requested that Mr. |
 | | In addition, he welcomed the normalization of relations with neighbouring countries, particularly the exchange of ambassadors with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It was also necessary to implement the 1999 Treaty on borders between the two countries. |
 | | He noted that, in the last two years, there had been more than 130,000 returns of citizens to areas where their ethnic group was a minority. Finally, Bosnia and Herzegovina seemed ready to hold elections in October that would be the first since the end of the war to be organized by local authorities. |
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