United Nations Security Council resolution 780 was adopted unanimously on 6 October 1992. After reaffirming Resolution 713 (1991) and subsequent resolutions on the topic, the Council expressed its concern at the continued "widespread violations of

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" in

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and authorised the Secretary-General

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to establish a Commission of Experts to examine and analyse the information submitted pursuant to Resolution 771 (1992) on violations of the

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in the region. The resolution urged Member States and international organisations to collect information relating to violations of

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in Bosnia and to make it available within 30 days of the adoption of the present resolution. Information collected would be analysed by the Commission of Experts. The Commission consisted of five members from Canada, Egypt, the

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, Norway and

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, which submitted its first interim report in February 1993, concluding it would be for the Security Council or other component of the United Nations to create a tribunal relating to the events in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the

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generally. The then French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas congratulated the passage of the resolution, who said it was a "considerable step in the evolution of international law" and was unprecedented since the founding of the United Nations. The conclusions of the Commission of Experts were delivered to the President of the United Nations Security Council along with a letter from the Secretary-General on 24 May 1994.Commission of Experts report and conclusions
on the evidence of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and other violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia was concluded in April 1994.

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Text of the Resolution at undocs.org
{{UNSCR 1992 0780 0780 Bosnian War 1992 in Bosnia and Herzegovina 0780 October 1992

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