Several other towns like Jajce and Srebrenica. site of the largest civilian massacre in Europe since World War II. may see their former inhabitants. in these two cases Muslims. forming the governments. The international community is now faced with the stark question of whether it will enforce the results of the elections by guaranteeing that the newly elected councils not remain governments in exile. Enforcing the election results. of course. means that the right of refugees and displaced persons to return must be honored. In most cases that would be able to be accomplished only by the international community under the protection of SFOR. Mr. President. I believe we have no choice in this matter. Both for moral and practical reasons we must move rapidly to enforce resettlement of refugees. This will be a difficult task. and time is short before the onset of the Balkan winter. Most likely we will have to begin with highly visible demonstration returns in one to two selected towns.
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