Event Title
An Afternoon with Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey
Location
Saint Louis University Pius XII Memorial Library
Description
An address by Bosnia’s first ambassador to the United Nations followed by a Q & A with the audience.
2:00pm Reception
3:00pm Lecture
Sponsors
Center for International Studies Department of Sociology and Anthropology Russian and Eastern European Studies Program Boeing Institute of International Business
Event Type
Event
Start Date
2-27-2015 2:00 PM
An Afternoon with Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey
Saint Louis University Pius XII Memorial Library
An address by Bosnia’s first ambassador to the United Nations followed by a Q & A with the audience.
2:00pm Reception
3:00pm Lecture
Sponsors
Center for International Studies Department of Sociology and Anthropology Russian and Eastern European Studies Program Boeing Institute of International Business
Additional Notes
As Bosnia-Herzegovina’s first ambassador to the United Nations, Muhamed Sacirbey became familiar to many Americans between 1992 and 1995 as an eloquent and impassioned advocate for the defense of Bosnia-Herzegovina against genocide and aggression. A native of Sarajevo, he moved to the U.S. with his family at the age of eleven. A graduate of Tulane Law School and the Columbia Business School, he served as legal council to Standard & Poor’s when the war against Bosnia-Herzegovina began.
In addition to serving as U.N. ambassador, Mr. Sacirbey served briefly as foreign minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina following the assassination of Irfan Ljubijankic, resigning in 1995 to protest the Dayton Accord’s accommodations of Slobobdan Milosevic and “ethnic cleansing.” A key figure in the founding of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Ambassador Sacirbey remains a tireless proponent of justice for Bosnians living at home and abroad.
Co-sponsored by St. Louis Bosnians, Inc.