THE INCOMING INTERNATIONAL PEACE ENVOY FOR BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA, LORD AS...

World | May 27, 2002, Monday // 00:00

The incoming international peace envoy for Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lord Ashdown, has pledged to make the fight against crime and the creation of jobs his top priority. Speaking to the Bosnian parliament, the former UK Liberal Democrat party leader also urged people in the former Yugoslav republic to vote in forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections. Lord Ashdown said he would use his tenure to build on the foundations of his predecessor, Austrian diplomat Wolfgang Petritsch. As High Representative, Lord Ashdown will have final responsibility for implementing the terms of the Dayton peace accord, which ended the Bosnian civil war in 1995.

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