Word: turk
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Speaking to an audience of about 50 in Pound Hall, Danilo Turk, a professor of international law at the University of Ljubljana, said the U.N.'s peace proposal would have worked had they sent the troops...
...Turk, whose speech was part of the Law School's Human Rights Series, praised Lord Carrington's efforts to organize the peace proposal in 1992 in London. But he said the plan failed because the U.N. did not enforce the cease-fire...
...Still, Turk cautioned against a direct military confrontation...
...Turk, who emphasized that he was speaking as a private citizen and not representative of any government, also condemned Serbia's human rights violations and criticized the Security Council for failing to punish Serbs for their war crimes...
...analysis of the conflict, Turk said the U.N. could have prevented the war had it involved itself earlier...