UN hands over police training to EU
(31 Dec 2002) 1. Wide of UN building in Sarajevo, UN and Bosnian flag 2. Close up UN and Bosnian flags 3. Wide of UN personnel and civilians checking out documents, 4. Closer shot of checking out documents 5. French policeman checking out 6. Close up UN policeman handing out papers and UN official documents 7. Various of people closing computers, UN flag in the background 8. Three policeman carrying luggage leaving UN building 9. UN cars leaving, pan to EU car arriving 10. UN and EU car in the car park 11. Various of UN and EU policemen talking 12. Close up EU policemen, EU sign in the arm 13. Various of EU policemen 14. Set up of Jacques Paul Klein 15. SOUNDBITE: ( English) Jacques Paul Klein, Special UN Representative to Bosnia: " The accomplishments we've given Bosnia - a police fit for Europe, a state border service that guarantees territorial integrity. We've done about US 25 million (dollars) other projects which were nice to do things, the hearing impaired, the universities, elevators, ramps, handicapped, all those things. I think we also leave a legacy in that we also bring in the EU PM (European Union Police Mission), which will I think help Bosnia-Herzegovina further integrate into Europe. That's very important. I think we've given the people here a sense of security, with the license plates, with the police, with other things that didn't exist before. So there really is freedom of movement now. Yes, on all three sides you still have fanatics, yes on all three sides you still have terrorists. There's no doubt about that. But I think the majority, the mass of the population here are good and decent people who would like to put this behind them, but are trying to find a leadership which will lead them in that direction. Not leaders who still separate them ethnically, but actually lead them to a common goal. It's hard to do for a leader. The best example I can tell you in history is Pericles in Athens - who every time Athens was threatened, he didn't follow his people, he lead them. And that's what's needed here by the leadership, to overcome the ethnic differences, the religious differences. That's going to take some time, but unless we want to lose all the young people who are going to northern Europe, it's time the leadership here said 'not what do we do to build this state and to keep our people here at home?" 16. Cutaway journalist siting at desk Q: Why hasn't Karadzic been arrested and what does he mean for Bosnia? 17. SOUNDBITE: ( English) Jacques Paul Klein, Special UN Representative to Bosnia: "Karadzic demonstrates unfortunately the impotence of the West and the face of evil. That all the other good that has been done here by the international community and there's been a great deal of it, is undermined by his continued freedom. Now many of the international community would say, now look, he's not that important any more, he's not a political figure, he doesn't play a role, he doesn't influence, that's a mistake. I think he's the living symbol of the past. " 18. UN and EU policemen shaking hands and wishing each other a good mission and a happy New Year STORYLINE: The light-blue flag of the United Nations Protection Force in Bosnia, UNPROFOR, will come down for the last time on Tuesday, December 31, to be replaced by the European Union's dark blue banner. The European Union Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUPM) takes over on January 1, 2003. Outgoing UN peacekeepers checked out and then greeted their EU replacements at UN headquarters in Sarajevo. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
