United Nations and European Union Obligated to Prevent "Peacetime" Aggression on BiH

By: Sifet Kukuruz

The institutions of the European Union should take appropriate sanctioning measures or at least publicly reprimand Croatia as its member for hindering or attempting to prevent the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, the execution of which would contribute to at least a partial remediation of the effects of aggression, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other mass crimes committed in BiH and simultaneously prevent the reawakening of evil forces in the future.

The European Union has no right to remain silent on the conduct of its member states that advocate and promote political principles and tenets that are not in line with European civilizational values and legal standards, and what is more, which negate the very foundations of the European Union.

The European Union should not tolerate such conduct by its member states, especially in relation to countries that are in the process of accession to the European Union and towards which it has undertaken an obligation to provide assistance in implementing constitutional reforms and European legal standards.

The European Union would lose all credibility if it allowed its member states to advocate and promote principles on the international stage that are completely alien and even negate the fundamental values on which the European Union is based, without punishment.

Similarly, UN bodies, primarily the General Assembly and the Security Council, should finally take measures against UN member states that act contrary to the goals and principles of the UN Charter in interstate relations.

The signatory states of the Dayton Peace Agreement, the Republic of BiH, the Republic of Serbia, and the Republic of Croatia, in addition to their membership in the UN, have also undertaken an obligation to base their future relations in accordance with the goals and principles of the UN Charter through the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement, which in Article 1 stipulates that the parties will conduct their relations in accordance with the principles set out in the Charter of the United Nations, especially that they will respect each other's sovereign equality.

One of the fundamental principles of the UN Charter is the prohibition of interference in matters falling within the domestic jurisdiction of any state. There can be no dispute or dilemma that the issue of amending the state constitution and electoral legislation falls at the top of the list of matters within the domestic jurisdiction of any state, including the state of BiH as a UN member.

Croatia and Serbia continuously violate the UN Charter in their relations with BiH, while Croatia, as a member of the European Union, additionally violates and negates European legal standards by obstructing their establishment in BiH. What is more, in addition to obstructing the establishment of European legal standards in BiH through the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, Croatia, through the anti-civilizational concept of legitimate representation, advocates for the establishment of principles that are in direct contradiction with European legal standards and which negate those standards.

The UN and the EU have an obligation to act and prevent the conduct of their member states that undermines the foundations on which they are based. There is no doubt that some form of action would follow if it were officially requested in a formal procedure.

It is only necessary for BiH to officially request the UN and the EU to finally take such actions. And it is high time, because if the international community did not act in 1992 to prevent wartime aggression, it should certainly prevent "peacetime" aggression against BiH.