Word: bosnia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...helped persuade nearly 100 governments to support a treaty to end the production, sale and stockpiling of land mines and to clean up existing minefields around the world. The explosive devices, which can cost as little as $3 apiece and are strewn haphazardly in places like Angola, Cambodia and Bosnia, are responsible for killing or brutally maiming some 26,000 people a year...
Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT and Defense Secretary WILLIAM COHEN are still feuding over whether American soldiers should remain in Bosnia beyond June 1998, the once hard-and-fast deadline for their departure. Albright wants their stay extended, fearing the Bosnian Serbs, Croats and Muslims will go back to slaughtering one another if U.S. forces leave next summer. Cohen and Congress want the troops out, with no ifs, ands or buts. Bill Clinton has papered over the dispute for the moment, ordering the Pentagon to draw up two sets of contingency plans: one for a June withdrawal, the other...
Ahtisaari said the job of the international community is to promote cooperation between the political parties in Bosnia-Herzegovina...
...president said in the interview that he thinks it is important for NATO troops to remain in Bosnia beyond 1998, the established date for withdrawal...
Ahtisaari said the job of the international community is to promote cooperation between the political parties in Bosnia-Herzegovina...