by Muhamed Sacirbey

About the author: Muhamed Sacirbey is the United Nations ambassador from the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Editor’s note: The following speech calls for a United Nations resolution to end an arms embargo against Bosnia-Herzegovina. After the speech, the U.N. Security Council voted against the proposed resolution.

Two questions and two questions only are relevant in evaluating the merit of this draft resolution:

First, has the Security Council compelled the necessary measures to stop the aggression and genocide directed at the Republic and citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina; and second, if not, what are the new and necessary measures that should be undertaken to stop this never-ending aggression and mayhem, particularly should the arms embargo on the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina be declared de jure [by law] invalid in...