lines. According to the United States Department of State, "[t]he conflict continued through most of 1995, and many atrocities were committed, including acts of genocide committed by members of the [Bosnian Serb armed forces] in and around Srebrenica from July 12-22, 1995, where approximately 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed." Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Dep't of State, Background Note: Bosnia and Herzegovina (2009), available at www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2868.htm (last visited December 8, 2009). Sacirbey, appointed Bosnian Foreign Minister upon the assassination of his predecessor in 1995, represented Bosnia at peace talks held in 1995 outside of Dayton, Ohio.[2] Those talks lead to the Dayton Peace Accords, which were formally signed on December 14, 1995 in Paris and which ended the war in Bosnia after morethan three years and ensured Bosnia's independence under the supervision of a High Representative selected by the United Nations Security Council. Id.
Sacirbey continued to represent Bosnia at the United Nations until 2000. During his eight-year tenure as Bosnia's first United Nations ambassador, Sacirbey opened the Permanent Mission to the United Nations and the General Consulate of Bosnia in New York (the "U.N. Mission"), promoted the creation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (the "ICTY"),[3] and managed the legal team in an action against Yugoslavia for genocide in the International Court of Justice ("ICJ").[4] For much of this period, the finances of the U.N. Mission were in disarray. Sacirbey claims that he received no salary for his services and that he had to open the U.N.