SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS DAYTON ACCORDS GIVE HOPE THAT PEACE CAN NOW BECOME REALITY IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

Following is the text of a statement by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali issued today:

The accords announced in Dayton give us hope that peace can now become a reality in the war-torn lands of the former Yugoslavia.

The United Nations will do all it can, within mandates authorized by the Security Council, to help end the suffering and to return life to normal.

I want to thank President Clinton of the United States for the peace initiative he undertook which brought the contending parties to the negotiating table.

The world should, at this time, pay tribute to all those peace-keepers of the United Nations, both military and civilian, who, at great personal cost, helped contain and stabilize the situation until the warring parties could turn from war to peace.

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