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23 Nov 2000

Albania + 8 others
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights: Open Letter to OSCE Ministerial Council

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— International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
TO: Ministers of Foreign Affairs, OSCE Ministerial Council
Vienna, 27-28 November 2000

Dear Ministers,

On the occasion of the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting of the OSCE last month, the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) detailed violations of the Helsinki "human dimension" standards by at least three quarters of the 55 members of the organization.

We would invite OSCE Ministers of Foreign Affairs to take the opportunity of their meeting in Vienna to address some of the most acute and persistent problems of non-implementation of Helsinki

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30 Aug 2000

Bosnia and Herzegovina + 2 others
Crops devastated by drought in Croatia, Bosnia and Slovenia

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— Agence France-Presse
by Zeljka Bilandzija

ZAGREB, Aug 30 (AFP) - A severe drought accompanied by temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) has devastated crops in Croatia, Bosnia and Slovenia, government officials and farmers say.

Fifteen out of 20 counties in Croatia have been declared disaster areas due to the combined effects of the drought and wildfires that are still raging across the country. Some areas have been without rain for around 40 days.

In Bosnia and Hercegovina the agriculture ministry of the Muslim-Croat Federation has called on the government to

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25 Jul 2000

Albania + 5 others
Advice From An Old Balkan Hand

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— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
From RFE/RL Balkan Report 25 July 2000, Volume 4, Number 55
One of Europe's leading experts on the Balkans has a clear message for the continent's policymakers: end any "obsession" with Serbia and concentrate on those countries that are ready to work for democracy and reform.

One of the pillars of the European Balkan-watching establishment is Swiss-German journalist Viktor Meier, who for many years was the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's" leading expert on the region. Now in retirement, he continues to write and make the conference

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23 Jun 2000

Bosnia and Herzegovina + 5 others
Ambassador Holbrooke's Remarks on the Balkans

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— US Department of State
United Nations -- Belgrade representatives should not be allowed to address the Security Council until Yugoslavia applies for and is accepted as a member of the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke said June 23.

Holbrooke made the remarks after the Security Council voted to not allow Yugoslavia's representative at the United Nations to address the Council during a discussion of the situation in the Balkans.

"In Security Council resolutions 777 and 821, it was decided that the state known as the Socialist Federal

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11 May 2000

Bosnia and Herzegovina + 5 others
For Balkan peace, final split needed

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— Christian Science Monitor
By Janusz Bugajski and Daniel N. Nelson

The Balkan endgame draws near. And it should. After a disastrous decade, much of the Yugoslavia of Versailles and Josip Broz Tito is a charred ruin. Only Slovenia escaped the military destruction and/or economic trauma of warfare, genocide, refugees, and occupation. Croatia suffered grievously from war damage and the psyche of nationalism from which the country is only now emerging. Macedonia, spared armed conflict, has nevertheless been forced to grapple with an immense flood of refugees in 1999, and the discomfiting status as a NATO dependency.

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15 Feb 2000

Bosnia and Herzegovina + 1 other
Bosnian Refugees in Limbo

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— Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Bosnian refugees in Slovenia are being made to feel unwelcome but are unable to return home.
By Andrea Accardi in Ljubljana (BCR No. 116, 15-Feb-00)

Safija is an 18-year-old Bosnian refugee from Doboj. Although she arrived in Slovenia eight years ago, she is still yearning for some semblance of a normal life.

Safija is one of just over 3,000 refugees who fled to Slovenia at the height of the Bosnian war. They received a generally warm reception, but the generosity soon began to wane.

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