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JUDGE BERNHARDT: Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, at first I would like to say that I'm very grateful to the Law School and to Dean McGill for having been invited to this conference and for having the opportunity to address this distinguished audience. Over the years I have studied many human rights texts, both national and international texts. And now we have to add the provisions in the Dayton and Paris Agreements on Bosnia and Herzegovina to our studies. And now I have also sometimes my dreams like Judge Ajibola, and my dream is if I could close my eyes and I dream that all these texts reflect reality, or the other way around: that reality conforms to these texts. If I open my eyes then, I still find the texts good, acceptable, but there must be something wrong in reality. So let's now consider some texts and consider some problems. My first question I would like to address is why does not the republic adhere immediately to the European Convention on Human Rights. I think the common widespread opinion is that the European Convention on Human Rights is one of the effective conventions on human rights and nearly all European states now are either already parties to the Convention or have asked to become a party to that Convention. But, unfortunately, this way is not helpful in the present situation, at least not for the moment or for the near future.

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