Open AccessACTIVITIES OF THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A SET OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY MEASURES IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN THE PERIOD FROM 1991 TO 1992
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
zbornik radova pravnog fakulteta u tuzli
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-1178
pISSN - 2303-8632
DOI - 10.51558/2712-1178.2020.6.1-2.61
Subject(s) - collective security , security council , political science , international security , public administration , international law , security studies , collective responsibility , national security , general assembly , law , international relations , politics
United Nations (UN) organs have the primary responsibility in the collective security system. The UN Security Council is a body with broad responsibilities for themaintenance of international peace and security. Accordingly, this body makesrecommendations and decisions with the aim of establishing international peaceand security. It also enacts measures that do not involve, but also those that involve the use of armed force. In relation to the Security Council, the UN GeneralAssembly has a subsidiary role in the maintenance of international peace andsecurity. The Republic of Austria was a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council from 1990 to 1992. It was important for Austria that the UN system ofcollective security functions properly, having in mind the fact that the territory ofthe former Yugoslavia is in its immediate vicinity, as well as the fact that the basicprinciples of international law were violated, especially in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In this regard, the officials of the Republic of Austria at the United Nations initiated, participated in the preparation and voting of several UN Security Councilresolutions with the aim of implementing certain collective security measures inBosnia and Herzegovina. The most important acts related to the implementationof the set of collective security measures adopted by the United Nations organswith the strong involvement of the Republic of Austria are: UN Security CouncilResolutions 749 and 752 (activities of the Republic of Austria in stopping the warin Bosnia and Herzegovina at an early stage), UN Security Council Resolutions757 (economic sanctions against FR Yugoslavia), UN Security Council Resolution761 (sending UNPROFOR to Sarajevo Airport), UN Security Council Resolution764 (proposal to impose coercive measures), Council Resolutions 770 and 771 UNSecurity Council (delivery of humanitarian aid to Bosnia and Herzegovina andits right to self-defense), UN Security Council Resolution 779 (right to return therefugees), UN Security Council Resolution 781 (establishment of a no-fly zone),Security Council Resolution 787 UN (proposal for the establishment of protectedzones), UN General Assembly Resolutions 48/88 and 49/10 (request for lifting thearms embargo on Bosnia and Herzegovina and Herzegovina).