Does the hon. Gentleman recall that the Official Secrets Act 1911 was introduced for a short time as an experimental measure until the Bosnian Crisis was over and is still on the statute book?
Grey-suited men waited for photocalls in various European capitals, unable to make any impact on the Bosnian Crisis.
The British Government have played a leading role in the international effort to resolve the Bosnian Crisis.
I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will appreciate that a large number of lay people in all the Churches dip into their pockets privately to contribute towards the relief of the Bosnian Crisis.
Although I have not been surprised by that professionalism, or by their logistical abilities and communications skills, the Bosnian Crisis has brought those skills to light for many people.
It is important to remember that the Bosnian Crisis has its origins in the situation in Kosovo.
They came near to arising over and over again during the Bosnian Crisis that occurred when the previous Government were in office.
At the present moment, the Army is well down on the 47 per cent who were on operations when the Bosnian Crisis was at its height, together with the problems in Northern Ireland.
During the Bosnian Crisis, that honour fell very clearly to Germany as, for geographical reasons, it obviously must.
The whole point about not going to war at the time of the Bosnian Crisis - not intervening in someone else's war, which we have done in the case of Kosovo and Iraq - was that doing such a thing opens up a Pandora's box, after which one cannot control the consequences that flow from that.
My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for that Answer, but is it not the case that Bosnia is now going backwards rather than forwards and that there is a severe danger that we will sleepwalk ourselves back into a Bosnian Crisis?
Does he understand that those of us who were in the House during the Bosnian Crisis feel some familiar echoes from that period, when the response of the international community was equally uncertain?