HL Deb 29 March 1995 vol 562 c89WA
Lord Kennet

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether the document reportedly compiled by "an American officer" and issued by NATO Southern Command Headquarters in Naples (International Herald Tribune 2 March 1995), claiming that United Nations officers had been "inept and confused" in their accounts of possible covert operations in breach of the UN embargo around Tuzla airfield in Northern Bosnia, was in fact so compiled and issued, and if so whether it was formally agreed by all NATO members, as well as by US Admiral Leighton Smith.

Baroness Chalker of Wallasey:

We are not aware of any NATO document which describes UN personnel in these terms. Following further investigations, both UNPROFOR and NATO accepted that there was no conclusive evidence to support initial UN reports of unauthorised flights in the vicinity of Tuzla's airfields and now consider the matter closed.