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President Slobodan Milosevic over the weekend reiterated his acceptance of the Bonn Accord signed by Russia and the leading NATO countries, but that agreement is open to such diverse interpretation that it will require some nimble diplomatic choreography to turn it into a workable peace plan. At issue: When NATO stops its bombing; the nature of NATO involvement in the U.N.-authorized peacekeeping force for Kosovo; and the size of the Yugoslavian military presence allowed to remain in the province. One indicator of the progress of peace talks is Ahtisaari's schedule. He's indicated that he'll accompany Chernomyrdin...
...much President Clinton will be able to compromise while still making the result appear to be a victory." The three key players in the diplomatic endgame -- Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin, U.S. deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott and European Union mediator President Martti Ahtisaari of Finland -- met in Bonn Tuesday to consider new Russian peace proposals, after a night of heavy air raids in which Belgrade claims NATO bombs killed 26 civilians in two separate incidents...
...with extensive European and U.N. credentials, has been tapped by European NATO members to represent them as a mediator, but has said he'll go to Belgrade only when Russia and NATO have resolved their differences so as to deny Milosevic any wiggle room. Despite signing on to the Bonn accord agreed by the G8 countries, which comprise Russia and the leading NATO countries, Moscow and Washington have been arguing over the nature of a Kosovo peace force and over the phasing of an end to the alliance's bombing campaign...
Belgrade for its part said Tuesday it was ready to "cut a deal" based on the Bonn accord despite reservations over some of its provisions. Of course, mediators still face the challenge of choreographing the sequence of agreements, troop withdrawals and bombing halts that will define the peace process. G8 envoys met in Bonn Wednesday to finesse the peace plan and draft a U.N. resolution authorizing it. The big losers in any diplomatic solution may be the Kosovo Liberation Army, who had enjoyed something of an informal alliance with NATO during the past eight weeks. The G8 principles call...
...soon as she arrived at the Petersberg conference center, a castle overlooking Bonn, Albright held a private meeting with Russia's Ivanov. It was planned with three aides for each side, but they decided to do it one-on-one, without even interpreters (each understands the other's language). They wrestled over the wording he would accept in the G-8 statement, which would be Russia's first public endorsement of an international force for Kosovo. Albright proposed calling it a "military force." Ivanov replied that he would agree only to calling it a "presence...