of Republika Srpska to co-operate fully with the Tribunal are met, and to promote the understanding of these obligations by all authorities and the general public;

• demands full compliance with the Rules of the Road, and commits itself to ensure adequate funding for the ICTY Rules of the Road Unit to be established in the Office of the Prosecutor to enable it to review cases referred to it;
• insists on full compliance with international standards in national trials and calls on UNMIBH, OSCE and other organizations, co-ordinated by the High Representative, to ensure that proceedings against those accused of war crimes in the national courts are adequately monitored.

16. Police development and reform: The Council welcomes the signing of the Framework Agreement on Police Restructuring, Reform and Democratisation in the Republika Srpska (the Framework Agreement) between the authorities of Republika Srpska and UNMIBH on 9 December 1998, in keeping with the principles endorsed by the Ministerial meeting of the Steering Board in Luxembourg. The Council also welcomes efforts by the High Representative and UNMIBH to speed up implementation by Federation officials of their commitments as set out in the Bonn- Petersberg Agreement on Restructuring the Federation Police and subsequent PlC Conclusions. The Council calls on the High Representative to use his authority to ensure compliance with obligations in co-operation with the parties.

The Council gives its full support to the High Representative and UNMIBH to increase their efforts in 1999 to build professional and multi-ethnic police forces in BiH by:

• urging the immediate implementation of all of the provisions of the Framework Agreement so that a transparent, professionally staffed and structured civilian police force, accountable to the public its serves, is established. The Council welcomes the phased introduction of minority police  representation according to the benchmarks specified in the Framework Agreement;
• insisting that Republika Srpska co-operate fully with the standards and procedures for selection, training and certification of existing officers, as well as the recruitment, selection, training and certification of new officers, and  demanding that the certification and training of the existing police officers be completed by 31 December 1999;
• insisting that the Cantonal Ministries comply fully with the instructions of the UNIPTF Commissioner to make recruitment and deployment of minority police a significant priority until the levels of minority police officers stipulated in the Bonn Petersberg Agreement on Restructuring of the Federation Police are met. In this regard, the Council welcomes the   establishment and initial efforts of Working Groups on Minority Police Recruitment and Return in each Canton. To further these efforts, Cantonal Ministries of the Interior and the Federal Ministry should present to UNMIBH     by 28 February 1999, plans on how positions will be made available and how minorities will be recruited;

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