Baroness Warsi attends WW1 Commemorations
30 Jun 2014 03:19 PM
Baroness Warsi
represents the UK Government at commemorations in Sarajevo to mark start of the
First World War
Senior Foreign Office Minister
Baroness Warsi is participating in centenary commemorations to mark the
outbreak of the First World War, during a visit to Bosnia and
Herzegovina.
Baroness Warsi is representing
the UK at a concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in the restored
Sarajevo City Hall, and will later witness the Century of Peace event. She will
also visit the joint exhibition of the Imperial War Museum and the Historical
Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The exhibition is a part of the Sarajevo
Heart of Europe foundation project implemented by the British Council and
supported by the European Union.
In addition to participating in
these commemorative events, during Baroness Warsi’s three day visit she
also met with a number of party leaders including: Zlatko Lagumdzija, Bakir
Izetbegovic, Fahrudin Radoncic, Martin Raguz, and Mladen Ivanic. She encouraged
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s senior political leaders to engage substantively
with the people’s calls for reforms, and emphasised the importance of
political parties to addressing socio-economic reforms in their programmes
ahead of the October elections. Baroness Warsi also stressed the UK’s
commitment to the territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a
sovereign and united country and support for both the EU and NATO
membership.
Senior Foreign Office Minister
Baroness Warsi said:
I am proud to be here to
represent the UK Government at the start of the commemoration of the First
World War in Sarajevo. I hope that the events this year, and over the next four
years, will bring people and communities together in
remembrance.
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