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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8989

13 July 2005
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/bosnia-herzegovina
EUFOR commander speaks of “shame” of international community's absence ten years ago and need to go beyond Dayton

Potocari, 12/07/2005 (Agence Europe) - British General David Leakey is in charge of around 7,000 EURFOR troops, the European Union's force in Bosnia-Herzegovina that took over from NATO at the end of last year. This interview with General Leakey took place on Monday during the commemoration of the Srebrenica-Potocari massacre.

Today you head EUFOR but what were you doing ten years ago when the international community was absent?

In 1995 I was spending about 1 in every 4 weeks in Bosnia, I...

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