In the final years of the Major administration , Rifkind was the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs . One of his first duties was to chair the London Summit on Bosnia which put much greater pressure on the Bosnian Serbs in the aftermath of the Srebrenica massacre and led , in due course , to the Dayton Accord which ended the fighting . As Foreign Secretary , on 24 September 1996 , Rifkind addressed the United Nations General Assembly and called for a UN Declaration barring political asylum for terrorists , arguing that they should not be able to benefit from the provisions of the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees to secure political asylum . In the same speech , he emphasised Britain 's commitment to the goal of global free trade by 2020 and said all governments should liberalise their economies and lift trading restrictions
Srebrenica massacre
Srebrenica massacre
Malcolm Rifkind