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...speech, entitled "Making Peace," Mitchell discussed his experiences as a mediator in Northern Ireland and the circumstances leading up to the Good Friday Accord of 1998, which he helped hammer...
...task of stopping the killing fell to Holbrooke, the architect of the Dayton peace accord. Holbrooke, the Administration's point man on the Balkans since 1992, is currently the ambassador-designate to the U.N., with his nomination in the hands of the U.S. Senate. He flew to Belgrade in October of last year and hammered out an awkward deal: Milosevic agreed to begin negotiations on Kosovar independence and also to accept 1,800 "monitors" on Kosovo's soil as a way of stopping the killing. It was an imperfect deal, but Washington pols hoped it would hold up long enough...
...most recent U.S. air war was over Bosnia in 1995. It helped drive Milosevic to Dayton, Ohio, where he signed a peace accord. An Air Force study concluded that the key lessons were to hit hard and use precision weapons. "Precision weapons gave NATO airmen the ability to execute a major air campaign that was quick, potent and unlikely to kill people or destroy property to an extent that would cause world opinion to rise against the operation," the study concluded...
...reference to this Croatian campaign when he credited the "courageous people in Bosnia and in Croatia" who "fought back" against the Serbs and "helped to end the war." Indeed, they did. Croatia's savage ethnic cleansing so demoralized the Serbs that they soon agreed to sign the Dayton peace accord...
...king's noted accomplishments include Jordan's 1994 peace accord with Israel and his work surrounding the 1998 Wye River peace agreement...