Word: accords
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...would the U.S. need MPRI? The Dayton accord calls for disarmament negotiations to reduce the Bosnian Serbs' military edge over the weaker Muslim-Croat Federation. While its European allies vigorously disagree, the U.S. believes that even if arms control shrinks the Bosnian Serb arsenal, the federation will require new weaponry to ensure a military balance in the region. The accord allows arms to start flowing into the region beginning in mid-March. "We will not be able to leave unless the Bosnian government is armed and prepared to defend itself," says Democratic Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware. "That...
Last week James Pardew, the Pentagon's point man in negotiating the Dayton accord, flew to Sarajevo to urge the Bosnian government to hire MPRI or a competitor like BDM Inc. or SAIC (Science Applications International). Pardew plans to tell the Bosnians that weapons will not begin to flow into Bosnia for months, but training (assuming the Bosnians act swiftly to organize the effort) is expected to begin within a few weeks, perhaps in Croatia, U.S. officials say. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who brokered the Dayton pact, recently spoke favorably of MPRI in testimony to Congress and says...
...similar incident last June, when Chechen fighters held more than 1,000 hostages in a hospital in the Russian city of Budyonnovsk. "The Budyonnovsk tragedy, at least, opened the way for talks with the rebels, aimed at ending the war in Chechnya," says Zarakhovich. "But now that the peace accord is in tatters and a new pro-Moscow leadership has been installed in Grozny, the rebels have nothing to gain from talks with Moscow and seem to be acting out of desperation...
...Bosnia, gathered leaders of the region's three warring factions to talk peace. The general met with a Bosnian Serb, a Bosnian Croat and a Bosnian army leader, of whom he said, "All of them focused on peace and pledged their determination to succeed with respect to the peace accord." Bosnian Serbs in Sarajevo, meanwhile, were rebuffed by Admiral Leighton Smith, overall commander of the nato-led force, when they sought to delay the reunification of the Bosnian capital; the peace treaty demands that areas controlled by Bosnian Serbs be turned over to the Bosnian government...
...roads were carting furniture rather than clothes and essentials. There were some reports of houses being burned as they left, but so far no accounts of violence. The fear, says Alexandra Niksic, is being fanned by Bosnian Serb leaders who remain beligerently opposed to the terms of the Dayton accord which would place some 70,000 Bosnian Serb Sarajevans under the authority of the Muslim dominated federation. "Though there were very few reactions to the meeting with Admiral Smith yesterday," says Niksic, "the leader of the Bosnian Serb parliament, Momcilo Krajisnik, warned on Wednesday that there would be trouble unless...