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Conflict in the Balkans: Human tragedies and the challenge to independent humanitarian action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2010

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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 2000

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References

1 For an account of the Dayton peace talks and the references to Kosovo therein see, inter alia, Holbrooke, Richard, To End a War, Random House, New York, 1998Google Scholar.

2 A position paper was prepared and released on 15 September 1998. See ICRC position paper on the crisis in Kosovo”, IRRC, No. 325, December 1998, p. 725Google Scholar.

3 For more insight into specific aspects of the activities carried out by the ICRC, by the International Federation and by the many National Red Cross or Red Crescent Societies involved, see the ICRC's website: www.icrc.org.

4 The provisions in the Dayton peace agreement referring to the ICRC were published in IRRC, No. 311, March-April 1996, pp. 243–245.

5 At the time of writing, the number of persons registered by the ICRC as unaccounted for is 2,900, consisting of 2,400 Kosovo Albanians, 400 Serbs and a number of Roma, Montenegrins, etc.