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Shaped by war, Bosnian leader chides UN inaction on Ukraine

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Bosnia’s leader decried the failure of the United Nations to prevent the war in Ukraine, saying Wednesday it was a chilling repeat of his country’s own brutal conflict three decades ago.
Addressing the U.N. General Assembly, Sefik Dzaferovic, the chairman of the three-person presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, criticized the Security Council’s inability to adopt a binding resolution or statement on the war.
“The United Nations system was unable to prevent or stop the war in my country … Unfortunately, that happened again,” Dzaferovic said. The Security Council, he said, « is evidently unable to fulfill its obligations.”
The Security Council’s post-World War II structure gives veto powers to five nations — the United States, China, Britain, France and Russia, the aggressor in the Ukraine war. Russia’s presence on the council has thwarted more substantive actions.

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